Lesson Plan : Sight-Singing
Teacher Name: | Mr. Price |
Grade: | Grade 9-10 |
Subject: | Music |
Topic: | Students will learn how to sing music at sight. |
Content: | learning to read simple, step-wise melodies in major keys and simple meters to minor keys with skips in compound mixed meters |
Goals: | learn to read music to unlock future musical doors; learn new songs easier, singg in-tune, anticipate patterns in music, become independent enough to do music alone |
Objectives: | STUDENTS WILL...Sight sing new choir music using solfege, numbers, and neutral syllables; read music in treble and bass clefs; determine the key or tonal center of a piece; identify the major or minor scale on which a melody is based; understand the meter and figure out what kind of note gets one beat; locate musical patterns such as outlines of chord or musical sequences |
Materials: | sheet music, sight-reading book, staff paper, notebook paper, pencils |
Introduction: | - draw musical symbols on the board (p. 61) and label each along with students - have students copy the various time signatures seen in music (p. 61) - guidelines for approaching a new piece of music - journal write: how do you think professional singers prepare for a piece of music? - review musical terminology and symbols |
Development: | - begin doing repertoire sight-singing every class - follow the steps for approaching a new piece (p.62) until they become second nature for the students - using solfege, be sure to review and further incorporate the movable "DO" - use clapping to internalize rhythms and recognition of notes and rests |
Practice: | - SING THAT TUNE game (reward winners) - daily sight-singing exercises taken from pp. 63-82 |
Accommodations: | - extended time - fewer items - individual instruction |
Checking For Understanding: | - sight-singing quizzes - symbol recognition - time signature recogniton - unit assessment |
Closure: | |
Evaluation: | - self-evaluation chart: have students chart their comfort with given material - unit assessment |
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