Combine literacy and music with this fun, rhythmic book!The book is Tanka, Tanka, Skunk! by Steve Webb. The link to the book on Amazon can be found in Resources. Read the book, associate the rhythm of the words with the syllables, add simple movements, and see the literacy connections grow!

Featured here are three traditional songs from England that call for opportunities to sing,
move, and listen attentively. Each song offers young children the opportunity to be
creative in their physical expressions while also following direction in a sequential order.
These experiences allow the teacher a straightforward means for taking folk and
traditional songs of England into classrooms of young children.

Students will demonstrate an understanding of steady beat as they participate in this team-based movement activity. This lesson is designed to fulfill Standard #6 of the National Standards for Music: Listening to, analyzing, and describing music.

Students will become familiar with the form of Trepak (Russian Dance) and various combinations of locomotor and non-locomotor movements such as skipping, galloping, hopping, jumping, walking, bending, twisting, nodding, and swaying in time to music.

The students will create with the teacher body percussion to Frederic Chopin - Mysterious Forest and Tchaikovsky - The Forest Of Fir Trees In Winter. They will chose their own piece of music and create own movements.

Using Beethoven's Symphony No. 5, students will discover how difficult it is to compose music with a hearing loss. Children will develop an understanding of overcoming disabilities and preserving through life's struggles.

This lesson introduces students to Babar, an elephant portrayed in the children's books by Jean de Brunhof. Students will listen to Francis Poulenc's musical composition of the same name, written to reflect the scenes in Jean de Brunhof's book. Students will gain an understanding of how powerful the use of simple rhythm instruments is in retelling the story. Students will also create visual works of art based on the sounds they hear in the audio performance.

Students will be taught the correlation of Native American music and rhythm. They will also create their own Native American musical instrument and develop a rhythm of their own. Students will understand the basics of rhythm and develop their own rhythms.

Students will learn to appreciate the process of telling a story through song, while learning basic musical skills like rhythm, singing on pitch, and call-and-response format.

Students will learn the concept of rhythmic pattern associated with expressive movement from the song "Row, Row, Row, Your Boat."

In this lesson, students will read and echo rhythms and also create their own.

In this lesson, students will examine and repeat the rhythmic patterns that are found in words. They will echo the rhythms through the use of class percussion instruments or clapping.

‘Embolada” is a form of poetry and song that has set refrains. The refrains allow
singers to organize their next improvised stanza in their heads—even as the music is
sounding. (McGowan,1991) This form of traditional music is active in the northeastern
region of Brazil. Embolada has a fast rhythm and complex tone that deftly incorporate varied
lyrics and onomatopoeia. Embolada is mostly improvised following a dialogue by the
“Embolador”, who sings while hitting the Pandeiro at short intervals in between verses. The
singer needs considerable skill, experience, and a sense of humor . Embolada is sung in the
streets; it is influenced by American rap music and African music. Using the Embolada
rhythm, students can improvise lyrics and sing solo.

"˜Embolada" is a form of poetry and song that has set refrains. The refrains allow singers to organize their next improvised stanza in their heads"”even as the music is sounding. (McGowan,1991) This form of traditional music is active in the northeastern region of Brazil. Embolada has a fast rhythm and complex tone that deftly incorporate varied lyrics and onomatopoeia. Embolada is mostly improvised following a dialogue by the "Embolador", who sings while hitting the Pandeiro at short intervals in between verses. The singer needs considerable skill, experience, and a sense of humor . Embolada is sung in the streets; it is influenced by American rap music and African music. Using the Embolada rhythm, students can improvise lyrics and sing solo.

Students will play instruments, sounds, or body percussion on appropriate words or phrases to enhance listening skils and ability to maintain steady rhythms during reading accompaniments. Webpage includes several different activities with a variety of books such as "The Very Busy Spider", "Silly Sally", and "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything". Activities appopriate for levels k-2. This collection of activities incorporates the use of instruments, sounds, and body percussion to accompany stories.

This lesson combines a read aloud book with musical accompaniment. Students will perform a simple repeating rhythm pattern on each page of the book. Students will be motivated with the interactive elements of reading the story. Students will anticipate and predict the text of the story and will read along with a phrase from each page of the book. This lesson can be facilitated by non-music teachers as well as music teachers. Any teacher can incorporate simple rhythms and melodies into read alouds, increasing engagement and motivation for students!