Reading graphic scores
I can read and play from a simple graphic score.
Reading graphic scores
I can read and play from a simple graphic score.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Composers can create music that helps us imagine animals, characters or stories.
- Moving to music can help us imagine the stories the composer is trying to tell.
- Music can be notated to share and remember for another day.
- A graphic score is one way of reading notation.
- Percussion instruments can be played in many different ways to create the imagery of an animal or environment.
Keywords
Notate - to write music down
Notation - a way of writing music down
Graphic score - a way of notating music using symbols, shapes or images
Symbol - a mark or drawing that represents something else
Common misconception
Music is always notated on a score.
Some music is never notated, it is shared by singing and playing. Some notation uses graphic scores, or rhythm grids. Any way of sharing how the music is expected to be played is a form of notation.
To help you plan your year 2 music lesson on: Reading graphic scores, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 2 music lesson on: Reading graphic scores, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
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The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom. Plus, you can set it as homework or revision for pupils and keep their learning on track by sharing an online pupil version of this lesson.
Explore more key stage 1 music lessons from the Compose and create: recording our musical ideas using a graphic score unit, dive into the full secondary music curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
Equipment
A variety of classroom percussion. A box with a lid that can fit multiple instruments inside.
Licence
Lesson video
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Starter quiz
4 Questions
