Instructional Planning Grid

TEKS- Creative expression/performance Students read and write music notation Objective- Students will identify A-string notes on a staff and play these notes as a performance. Big Understandings- What we play can be written and read If we can read notes, we can learn to play new songs or familiar songs more immediately. Assessment Evidence- With 100% accuracy and no more than a two-beat delay, students can identify and play A-string notes written on the staff in various ascending and descending patterns. Opening Hook- Review musical alphabet and spell words with letters in the musical alphabet for five minutes. Round robin responses. Instructional Strategies/ Student Activities1. Student helper hands out staff lines page. 2. TECHNOLOGY: Teacher will use an AV projector to show staff and notes on a screen. 3. Teacher uses question/answer to review D-string notes, clef, G line, staff (lines, spaces, key, time signature), contour, note stems/heads 4. Students answer questions and copy scale on staff paper 5. Students play an ascending and descending one-octave D Major scale while I point to the notes in a rhythm pattern 6. Students form groups (with Recorder, Participation Monitor, Presenter, Facilitator) of four and take turns pointing and playing. 7. Students write original two-measure compositions using the notes of the D Major scale and simple rhythm patterns (half note, quarter note, eighth notes, quarter rests). 8. Teacher projects compositions; composers perform them; students play as a class. Grouping Patterns- Groups and individual Ending, Summary/Reflection- Students re-copy compositions to an index card to be passed around as a warm up next time. Index card is the ticket out the door.