Rhythm Reading Center: Rhythm Cards Using Counts and Rhythm Maker Mat Printables

Want to have your students practice rhythm reading? This is what you need! Use these rhythm mats and rhythm cards to allow students to physically make their own rhythms right in front of them. Use them as a center in class or for private lessons.

How to use:

Print rhythm cards and cut them out

Print out rhythm mats

Place cards on the mats in the squares provided to create your own rhythms to read and play

Included:

Rhythm Mats with:

2 measures of 4/4 with colored border

2 measures of 4/4 in black and white

2 measures of 3/4 with colored border

2 measures of 3/4 in black and white

4 measures of 2/4 with colored border

4 measures of 2/4 in black and white

78 rhythm card printable pages with counts

(39 in color and 39 in black and white):

Whole note

Dotted half note

Half note

Quarter note

Quarter rest

Pair of eighth notes

Triplet made of eighth notes

4 Sixteenth notes

Eighth and 2 sixteenths

2 sixteenths and an eighth

Sixteenth and dotted eighth

Dotted eighth and sixteenth

Count cards come with different starting counts so you may place them in different orders on the rhythm boards and be able to count them in time.