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Lesson Plans for MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS level P
During Reading
Student Reading
Divide the reading up into sections. Children should read one section at a time and fill out each section of the worksheet/chart as they read. Ask questions, have a discussion, and complete the appropriate segment of the chart as a group, then move to the next section.
- Have children read the introduction on pages 4–5.
- Ask: What are some of the ways that the first humans made music?
- Experiment with everyday objects to make music (for example, frying pan lid, empty oatmeal box, glass pop bottle).
- Have children search the classroom and experiment with objects to make music.
- Have children read the text under the heading Instruments on pages 6–7.
- Ask: Each instrument has its own personality. (page 6) What does this mean?
- Show 10–12 minutes of Walt Disney’s Fantasia and ask children to comment on the different sounds they heard (for example, loud, soft, harsh). What feelings did they experience? (for example, happiness, excitement, etc.).
- Have children read the text under the heading Orchestras on page 8.
- Ask: Do you think the man on page 8 is playing an instrument? If not, what could he be doing? Why is the conductor’s job important?
- Introduce the worksheet and instruct children to complete it as they read.
- Have children read the text under the heading Strings on pages 9–10.
- Have them fill in the worksheet.
- Complete the string section of the worksheet together as a class.
- If possible, bring in a guitar and allow children to pluck the strings. Discuss the features of the instrument, such as the material, the width, and tension of the string.
- Have children read the text under the heading Woodwinds on pages 11–12 and do the worksheet.
- Ask: Look at the flute on page 11 and the clarinet on page 12. How does the musician hold the instruments? What does he/she do with his/her fingers to make the music?
- Have children read the brass section on page 13 and do the worksheet.
- Have children read about percussion instruments on page 14 and do the worksheet.
- Ask: What kinds of materials are used to make percussion instruments? What kinds of sounds might these different materials make?
- Have children read about keyboard instruments on page 15 and do the worksheet.
- Review the entire chart.
- Have children read pages 16–18.
- Ask: What are the six different kinds of bands mentioned in the book? Which instruments might be in those different bands?
- Have children read pages 19–23.
- Ask: What are some of the different instruments from around the world?
- Review several of the pictures on pages 19–23 and ask children how the instruments might be played, and how they might sound.
- Have children read pages 24–25.
- Ask: What is the meaning of quartet? (Refer to page 24 and have children guess again if no one knows the meaning of quartet.) What do the four musicians do in the quartet?
- Encourage children to talk about the pleasure of singing and teach/sing the song "Do, Re, Mi" (from The Sound of Music / www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/doremi.htm for lyrics).
- Have children complete worksheet number 1.
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