Last week on the podcast, we shared a couple of easy to implement rhythmic reading ideas. In that episode, we talked about how rhythmic reading is multifaceted and not a straight forward description. The layers of “reading” are only compounded when we add in melody, or pitches, to reading activities.

Today, Victoria shares an activity for identifying melodic patterns in well known folk songs as well as how to extend it into something that allows for student choice and agency, inching toward composition. Anne shares an activity for practicing stick to staff notation, where students have to read, identify, and translate different melodic notation types. Both processes are strategies you can easily implement in your classroom, asap.

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