Music - Grade Kindergarten: ELD.K12.ELL.SI.1
Big Idea: English Language Development for English Language Learners
☆ Categorized as Best Assessed in the Classroom (BAC)
- Understanding: Language of Social and Instructional Purposes
- Benchmark: English language learners communicate for social and instructional purposes within the school setting.
Students will be able to:
- interpret unfamiliar English terms using a home language dictionary or online translator.
- how to use a home language dictionary or online translation program
- perform rhythmic and melodic patterns accurately by imitating aural patterns demonstrated by the teacher and/or peers.
- procedure for aurally deciphering rhythms (e.g. count singing, speaking rhythms, subdividing)
- Curwen hand signs and solfeggio syllables
- perform rhythmic and melodic patterns accurately by reading traditional notation and interpreting music symbols.
- pitches on the staff, rhythmic patterns appropriate to the course level
- use classroom visual aids to accurately interpret and perform musical symbols and abbreviations.
- communicate with a peer tutor/buddy for clarification on concepts presented in class.
- imitate musical elements modeled by the teacher and peers.
- performance techniques: characteristic tone, balance, blend, mallet technique, intonation
- expressive characteristics: e.g. dynamics, tempo, phrasing
- perform music in class to demonstrate comprehension and synthesis of skills.
- classroom procedures
- performance techniques: proper posture, diction, following a conductor, intonation
- recognize, count, and notate simple rhythms.
- differentiate between English terminology and musical terminology.
- Italian and/or italicized words
Students will know:
- how to use a home language dictionary or online translation program
- procedure for aurally deciphering rhythms (e.g. count singing, speaking rhythms, subdividing)
- Curwen hand signs and solfeggio syllables
- pitches on the staff, rhythmic patterns appropriate to the course level
- performance techniques: characteristic tone, balance, blend, mallet technique, intonation
- expressive characteristics: e.g. dynamics, tempo, phrasing
- classroom procedures
- performance techniques: proper posture, diction, following a conductor, intonation
- Italian and/or italicized words