Classroom Guitar Unit - Chord charts, tuning, theory, assessments, & more!

Teaching guitar is fun, educational, and now much easier with this inclusive guitar unit which contains an introduction to guitar, chord charts, assessments, theory explanations & worksheets, lead sheets & resources to find more music.

As PDF slides, it is easy to show on a screen for chord charts or to play songs as a full class, two of the many ways I use this. Assessments & worksheets are printable. There are 2 grading systems - standard based & traditional points - included on assessments.

With everything from guitar chords to songs, music theory to performance rubrics, this GUITAR UNIT has everything you need for your students to be successful. It is aligned with the National Core Arts Standards (Music) and contains 72 pages of content to help provide students with the necessary structure to learn this Hawaiian instrument.

• Introduction: Types, History, Parts
• Ways to Read Music: Notation, Tab, Chords
• Tuning
• Theory: Scales
• Theory: Circle of Fifths
• Theory: Enharmonic Notes
• Theory: Creating Chords
• Fretboard practice
• Fingering charts
• Chord charts
• 15+ Songs (lead sheets)
• Performance trackers
• Assessment trackers
• Rubrics
• Reflections
• Worksheets
• Major/Minor listening assessments
• Pretest
• Teacher pages
• Thank you & TOU included as well

For older students, this can be condensed into a semester or trimester or used with later elementary students for up to a year.

Additional resources:

1. A full Guitar Unit with history, notation, tablature, chords, tuning, music theory, strumming, songs, worksheets, assessments, and progress tracker
2. 2-3-Chord Guitar Songs - C, F, G chords- 5 songs using C & F, C & G, or all 3 chords to play world folk songs.
3. Guitar Songbook - 16 songs in a digital format to accompany the full unit.
4. Guitar Songbook - Disney- 5 songs that kids know a love
5. Guitar Songbook - Patriotic - 5 songs for Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, or Flag Day
6. Guitar Songbook - Pop Songs- Perfect for a concert and it engages middle school students!
7. Play a Rainbow - Guitar Bulletin Board - Rainbows make everything beautiful
8. Guitar Escape Room - Puzzles to review material and challenge gifted learners.
9. Guitar Songbook - Winter - 5 winter secular & holiday songs