Musical Instruments Level P
Text Type: Nonfiction • Word Count: 1051

Book Summary
Musical Instruments introduces the reader to various types of musical instruments. Well-known Western instruments, as well as examples of instruments from around the world, are included. Children will readily recognize familiar instruments, such as the piano and violin. They will also have great fun showing off their new vocabulary to family members. For example, can anyone guess where the gusle is played?

Lesson Objectives

Reading Strategies
Children should use a variety of strategies to determine word meaning and comprehend text. The targeted strategy for this lesson is: Classifying and organizing information for recall.
The table of contents and section headings should be used to help children locate information. Rereading and summarizing after each section reinforces the organization and content of the categories.

Word and Print Skills
Phonics
Sight word techniques to teach words from other languages

Word Work
Using commas in series
Specialized nouns

Comprehension
You will likely address a number of comprehension skills as children work to understand the text. The targeted comprehension strategy for this lesson is: Classification.

Visual Learning
Read one section of the book and then ask children to look at the pictures and identify features of the instruments.

Targeted Vocabulary Words
Content Words
1. strings; 2. woodwinds; 3. brass; 4. percussion; 5. keyboard

Examples for each of the above:
1. cello, violin, viola, double bass, harp; 2. flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon; 3. trumpet, horn, trombone, tuba; 4. xylophone, drums; 5. piano, organ

Instruments from around the world
mandolin, Native American flute, panpipes, bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, lute, castanets, African drum,
Taiko drum (pronounced tie-ko), kalimba or thumb piano (pronounced ka-lim-ba), gusle (pronounced gus-le, or gus-la), koto (pronounced ko-to), shekere or beaded shaker (pronounced shek a-ray), sitar (pronounced sit-ar)

Additional
amplifier, bow, orchestra