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"Firework" by Katy Perry Poetry Terms Figurative Language Activities
Figurative Language and Poetic Devices/Poetry Terms Identification using Katy Perry's "Firework"Use Katy Perry's popular song "Firework" to teach figurative language, sound devices, and other poetry terms. You can decide how many and which devices you'd like your students to find.Updated to include additional exercises for more in-depth learning and making connections to the text! Those I've pointed out in this exercise include:alliteration, anaphora, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification
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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Song Parody Writing Unit for Music or ELA print or digital
Getting buy-in from upper elementary and middle school students can be a challenge! This parodies and piggyback songs unit is NO PREP and includes everything you need to engage those reluctant musicians in composing their own lyrics. This unit works perfectly in music or ELA classes, and includes both printable and Google Slides(TM) versions.This is designed as a cross-curricular activity that could be implemented easily by a music teacher OR an English teacher. I’ve supplied you with an example
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6th - 8th
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Child Labor CLOSE Read Using Newsies Song Lyrics - History & Reading Activity
If you and your students are learning about the history of child labor, or you are looking for an interesting close reading activity - this resource is for you! Close reading with song lyrics has proven to be very helpful to my students. This resource will help integrate this teaching idea into social studies and history lessons! In this 9-page packet, students will read the lyrics Newsies "Seize the Day." The song explains the feelings of newspaper boys when they were forming their union to fig
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3rd - 7th
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Music Lyric Analysis FOR ANY SONG!
This resource can be used with ANY SONG and is great for a review or test prep!No doubt students love music. As teachers, we know one of the bestways to engage students in learning is teach with their interests in mind.Music offers an engaging and exciting way to cover many Common CoreStandards. What makes this resource stand out is that it can be usedwith ANY SONG! This gives you the choice to use one that your studentsare currently enjoying or one that you enjoy yourself. Students are asked to
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3rd - 10th
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End of the Year Playlist - Fun Writing Activity - Printable & Digital - Spotify
Wrap up the school year with a bang! Make those final days memorable and meaningful for your secondary students: MUSIC! Let the rhythm of music carry your students through reflection and celebration as they select 5 songs to encapsulate their school year journey:✅ A song for my friends✅ A song for my teachers✅ A song for my favorite class✅ A song for my favorite memory this year✅ A song to motivate me for next yearStudents can even get creative and craft their own categories using the handy blan
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6th - 9th
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Christmas Sing Along Powerpoint (Editable)
Christmas Sing Along Editable Powerpoint: Sing along with your favorite Christmas carols with this 180+ page PowerPoint. This editable PowerPoint will be such a time saver! It is perfect for music teachers who lead all school sing-alongs, or could be used to sing Christmas carols and winter songs in class. Classroom teacher could use this if they would like to have any Christmas Carol Karaoke/Sing Along at their class Christmas parties. This document is NOT a PDF. I have made it a PowerPoint so
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K - 8th
Aca-Scuse Me? Teaching Theme vs. Main Idea With Music and Lyrics
This assignment is PITCH PERFECT for teaching theme to students grades 4 through 8!***UPDATED 9/8/18 TO INCLUDE:***PRE/POST TEST ANSWER KEYSCONCEPT HANDOUT FOR STUDENTSANSWER SHEETS FOR EACH OF THE 5 SONGSIf you are like me back during my first year of teaching 5th, I struggled to teach main idea and theme. This assignment makes the task more fun. Resource is designed to help your students analyze 5 popular songs for themes. Included in this 21 page bundle:-5 hugely popular song lyric pages for
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4th - 8th
The Odyssey / O Brother Where Art Thou Movie Activities, Lyric Analysis, CCSS
The movie O Brother Where Art Thou is the perfect pairing to add fun and depth of learning to The Odyssey! These activities foster comparison skills as students analyze the similarities and differences between the two mediums. As a bonus, I've included two song-lyric analysis activities in which students apply Odysseus' travels to the lyrics from two different tunes that make an appearance, including "I Am A Man of Constant Sorrow"! I find this adds just a splash of extra fun! ♪INCLUDES: ★2 page
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7th - 12th
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Beginning Band Christmas Bundle | Concert Band
Get your beginning students in the Christmas spirit with our simple and easy Christmas beginning band bundle.This bundle includes:Four Easy Christmas SongsChristmas Rhythm DrillsFour Easy Christmas DuetsEach product includes parts for flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto sax, tenor sax, bari sax, trumpet, horn, trombone/baritone/bassoon, baritone T.C., tuba, pitched percussion, unpitched percussion, and a conductor score.Check Out More Christmas Band ProductsJust a Minor Christmas - Sheet
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5th - 7th
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Teaching Figurative Language with Taylor Swift Songs - Grades 3-6
If there’s one thing I love about Taylor Swift (other than her dance moves!) it is her use of figurative language. If you have ever listened to her songs you know she uses a lot of similes and metaphors in her writing. She is a major pop star today, and I guarantee your students can (and will!) sing along to any one of her songs! With this product you will be able to teach and have your students practice identifying and writing seven types of figurative language using Taylor Swift songs.
Beginn
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3rd - 8th
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The BIG BOOK of FOLK SONG FUN for Bells or Boomwhackers
What a great resource! 36 familiar folk song melodies, professionally notated on the treble staff with color-coded notes to facilitate success with Boomwhackers or bells. This format works well for teachers and students with very little music experience as well as seasoned music teachers and older students. (If your bells, chimes, or boom pipes aren't color-coded, apply colored stickers). These songs may be projected (great for keeping students focused and guiding discussions). They may also be
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K - 8th
HOLIDAY MUSIC FOR BEGINNERS: Boomwhackers® Handbells Recorder Christmas Music
HOLIDAY MUSIC FOR BEGINNERS is a PDF collection of simple eight measure songs for students to read and play. (If you prefer Powerpoints with virtual Handbells to play, you might like the resource found by clicking HERE!)HOLIDAY MUSIC FOR BEGINNERS introduces students to treble clef note names, and the opportunity to play HOLIDAY SONGS in your elementary music lessons. The HOLIDAY MUSIC PDF contains Color coded options makes them convenient for use with boomwhackers, handbells, or xylophones. H
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K - 7th
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The Twelve Days of Christmas Posters, Readers, Coloring, Performance
This was a gigantic hit at my school for the past few years with all ages, Use these with students in class or with a large group at your Christmas party or assembly. Read and color with the younger students. Do a group interactive performance with the whole school or church or other group. After our group activity, I had so many comments that this was the best ever Christmas assembly thanks to this activity.*Newly added 12 days of Christmas project for older studentsSPECIAL TERMS OF USE FOR THI
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education
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16 Christmas Carols | Flex Concert Band
We have arranged 16 famous Christmas Carols for flex concert band. Each instrument comes with four SATB parts. Also included are percussion and rehearsal piano.The following parts are all available in four SATB parts:Flute/Oboe Clarinet/Trumpet Alto/Bari Sax Tenor SaxHornTrombone/Baritone/BassoonTubaMallet PercussionViola/Alto ClefThe following parts are also included:TimpaniPercussion 1Percussion 2Percussion 3Rehearsal PianoC ScoreCondensed Score Carols included:Angels We Have Heard on HighAul
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6th - 8th
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The Holmes Sweet Music Home Picture Book Index
Have you been wanting to incorporate children's literature into your music classroom but don't know how? Are you overwhelmed with finding musical books that cover specific concepts or holidays? Do you wish you had something that helped make lesson planning easier? If the answer is yes to any of those questions, then this is the product for you!Five years ago, I sat down and indexed my entire picture book collection. I categorized it to include rhythmic concepts, melodic concepts, holidays, seaso
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PreK - 8th
Schoolhouse Rock Bundle (Grammar and America) Fill-In Activities
This is a bundled pack of both my Grammar Rock and America Rock Fill-In-the-Blank worksheets. In this resource, you get all 9 Schoolhouse Rock Grammar Rock songs and 11 America Rock in an easy to print (PDF), fill-in-the-blank style format to use with your students to make listening to the songs more interactive!You will get from Grammar Rock:A Noun is a Person, Place or ThingBusy PrepositionsConjunction JunctionInterjections!Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here!Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla (Pronou
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4th - 12th
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Christmas Song Book of Caroling Sheets
These Christmas Song Book of Caroling Sheets is great for sing a-longs, concerts, and classroom fun over the winter holiday!!21 SONGS INCLUDED1. Deck the Halls2. Jingle Bells3. Let it Snow4. Jolly Old Saint Nicholas 5. Jingle Bell Rock6. Merry Little Christmas7. Over the River and Through the Woods8. I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas9. It's Beginning to Look A lot Like Christmas10. Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas11. Here Comes Santa Clause12. Hark! the Harold13. Frosty the Snowman14. Feliz Navid
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PreK - 12th
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Also included in: Christmas Activities Bundle for Fine Motor Skills
Taylor Swift Lyrics Coloring Page Bookmark Set {VERSION 1}
There are 8 unique bookmarks in this set. Each one features lyrics from Taylor Swift songs. They are fully black and white so that students can color them! Version 2 can be found here.Click here to follow me!
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3rd - 12th
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Also included in: Taylor Swift Lyrics Coloring Page Bookmark BUNDLE
Favorite Carols BUNDLE TWO – 10 Song Teacher Kit Christmas Carol
Here are some of my favorite Carols to teach to kids! These “Favorite Carol” kits are intended to help you teach each song and reinforce historical content and vocabulary at the same time. The set could be printed out and posted on a bulletin board or used as reference cards as you teach the lesson. I know there are some folks on carts or who primarily use digital projectors so I’ve included a PowerPoint format of the set as well.
I love teaching carols to my students! There are so many
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PreK - 12th
Figurative Language: Music Through the Decades
Take a journey through the decades while identifying figurative language in music specific to each era. The set includes music from the 50s through the millennium. Great for station work or small group activities.
Each decade handout includes a short summary of the music of the period, six sample lyrics of music popular in the era, and a chart for identifying the figures of speech found in each sampling (simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, and idiom).
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4th - 9th
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African Noel (Sing Noel) Voice, Percussion, Boomwhackers, Recorder, Uke
This wonderful Liberian folk tune is loaded with teaching and performance possibilities. It inspires music exploration, cultural awareness, drumming, singing, and playing recorder, uke, percussion instruments, and/or Boomwhackers.
This Musi-Kit includes the following:
Two vocal (and/or recorder) arrangements, one simple, one more complex (flexible for grades 1 through 8), which can be sung in unison or in canon (round);
An original rhythmic chant which can be performed vocally, as an instru
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1st - 8th
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Christmas Play Script - Holly the Christmas Elf
A funny Christmas play that revolves around Holly the Elf. After being accidentally taken to the North Pole one Christmas Eve, she stayed until adulthood and grew up thinking she was an elf herself. One day she found out she was a human, and decided to go and visit her biological father.On arrival she wasn’t welcomed by her father but soon the family grew to like Holly, and she also found a boyfriend. But then everything changed when she fell out with her father and she decided to leave.However,
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4th - 7th, Staff
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Also included in: A Bundle of Four Christmas Play Scripts
Carol of the Bells for Orff or Marimba Ensemble. 3 levels. beginner to advanced
This piece is perfect for a winter concert or recital. If you have an upcoming administrative assessment and need to show differentiated instruction, I've got you covered. The PDF includes music for three different playing levels. All of the notes are natural so there is no need to change the bars on the instruments. The audio in the preview video is a recording the parts played on a piano.The PDF includes: - Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced parts. Perfect for differentiated instruction.-
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3rd - 8th
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Winter Bucket Drumming
This is built from one of my favorite teaching units – bucket drumming karate, and my desire to bring it to a winter concert setting! The students love showing off their skills, and so do I! My favorite thing is to use popular winter and Christmas songs that I already own and have the students play along! Each song features instructions as well as lyrics and suggestions for how to play along from start to finish (and passing actions if appropriate), followed by a practice rhythm slide for stu
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K - 8th
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