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High school balanced literacy songs for special education
Recorder Karate - Iconic Sheets
I have many Special Education students in my classes and created these iconic sheets to accompany our Recorder Karate unit in 5th Grade. I have only included the first 5 belts since the songs after that are at a level I am not sure they will be capable of. Hope you enjoy!
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3rd - 12th
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Christmas SINGO Game
From the maker of Halloween SINGO comes the latest addition: Christmas SINGO! This game combines Name That Tune & BINGO in one fun musical experience your students will love. This kit contains 7 game boards, directions, and master song list. **Note- music and song recordings are not included in this kit. The songs listed are easily found on iTunes or Christmas-themed CDs sold at retail stores nationwide. For the musically inclined- sing or play the carols instead of using a recording.
Perfe
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2nd - 12th
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Literary Elements in Song Lyrics: Organizers & Key for Rap Song
This LITERARY Elements Analysis lesson is used with the song lyrics of Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise"
If you want an avenue to truly reach many of your students in teaching them literary elements and how to identify and analyze them, this product is perfect for that!
Elements of Focus: Theme/Main Idea, Allusion, Irony, Idiom, Personification, Metaphor, Oxymoron
PDF file contains 7 pages-- 3 student printable organizers with literary elements in which student provides lyrics from song displayin
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Staff
Christmas Holiday Song Book
Christmas Holiday Song Book
This is an activity to do with your class the whole month of December. Students love getting their own Christmas Holiday Song book. Some people may think this is just a simple song book, but it is so much more. I use this in my class for many balanced literacy activities! Students will have practice using the table of contents page. I ask for requests and they actually have to find the song and the page number. When we get to the song we sing it much slower and t
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K - 12th
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Walk Away Social Story
This is a social story to encourage an appropriate behavioral response when a peer gets too close to an individual. If you like to sing, this social story can be sung to the tune of 500 Miles by the Proclaimers.
Social stories are an effective and easy intervention to use for a variety of behaviors to help children with autism. For example, social stories can be an effective tool to teach children new social situations. Effective social stories are direct, simple, do not state absolutes, and
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PreK - 12th
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Learning English Through Music
This Powerpoint presentation contains 30 current songs to help students practice figurative language, poetic devices, literary elements, and grammar. Students are presented with a link to the song, and the lyrics of that song on each slide. Along with those items is a set of directions telling the student what they are looking for in each specific song.
We complete this activity as a class, and I give the students the time of the song playing to fulfill the assignment for each song. When t
Grades:
8th - 10th
Types of Conflict with Songs
This presentation is one that I used with my students this year. We were reviewing types of conflict, and I needed a new, fresh perspective. I decided to use the song "Rude" by Magic in combination with the response song written from the father's point of view. I also found a daughter's response to the conflict. Students are taught how to write a short response to literature using the ACE technique, and they are asked to identify text based evidence which supports each character's point of vi
Grades:
7th - 10th
Synthesis Paragraph (Structure and Medium): Charlie Wenjack, Secret Path
This lesson will show students the story of residential schools and Charlie (Chaney) Wenjack, then ask them to write a formal synthesis paragraph.Students will:- Be given a short reminder of what Canadian residential schools were (for context)- Be given an introduction on Chanie Wenjack (The name Charlie was a mistake in the original article)- Be asked to read an article and song lyrics, then watch the Gord Downie short film.- Answer guiding questions between each section to help them differenti
Grades:
9th - 12th
Happy Happy New Year Song
Use this song to SING in the New Year with your class! This song is fun, upbeat, and easy to sing along to! The song is sung to the tune of “Happy Happy Birthday”. Which is a familiar tune, however not the exact happy birthday song. I have included both recordings to go with this product. Enjoy SINGING in the New Year!
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PreK - 12th
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Revision Songs: Highway to an A (Ali Cobby Eckermann) - GAMIFIED!
GAMIFIED! - bringing fun into the senior classroom - learning through playGamified! is my NEW resource series on TPT. Through incorporating play into the high school English classroom students are motivated, stimulated and supported to develop the skills, concepts and language they need to succeed.How often does a catchy tune get stuck in your head? Utilise this tendency to remember songs for your students' advantage. This downloadable package helps students with a unit studying the poetry of Al
Grades:
11th - 12th
Song Choice Board - Special Needs
Use this song choice board to give students with special needs a choice in what song they want to hear.
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PreK - 12th
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Social Justice Hyperdoc
This Social Justice Hyperdoc is a great tool for flipped classrooms or project-based learning. The hyperdoc gives them all the resources they need to become educated community members. If you are teaching about Social Justice, this hyper doc is for you It includes a premade jam board, tons of videos, articles, and songs about social justice.
Grades:
9th - 12th
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Also included in: Long Way Down Section #1 Bundle
Understanding History: James Taylor's Millworker
A simple comprehension worksheet that goes with listening to James Taylor's song Millworker. Millworker is about a woman who works in the mills in Lowell, Massachusetts. I've included copies of the lyrics to the song with the worksheet.
The original purpose of the worksheet was to be used for a self-contained special education post-Civil War US History class. The activity was also used for some students working on the alternate assessment as using a song they could listen to provided a "rea
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7th - 11th
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We're gonna' rock to the 3 kinds of rocks!
This is a fun song about the 3 kinds of rocks: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. In this song each verse is repeated to give the listener a greater chance of hearing and grasping the academic content. This song gives short definitions of each of the 3 kinds of rocks:
1. Igneous rocks are formed when magma or lava cools and hardens.
2. Sedimentary rocks are made of pebbles, sand and clay. they are squeezed together in layers and become buried and cemented to form hard rock.
3. Me
Grades:
3rd - 9th
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To the Tune of... Book Pairing Activity
This project goes great with a book study or independent reading book. It helps students understand characters or settings in their book in a fun and engaging way.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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Literary Devices in Song Lyrics Project
Students demonstrate their understanding of literary devices by creating an iMovie (or PowerPoint, Keynote, etc.). This unit includes the assignment sheet with requirements, "movie script" planning page (which can be reproduced as many times as students need it), evaluative rubric, and even a slip for other students to fill out while watching their peers' presentations!
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6th - 9th
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GarageBand Sound Bites
Students will love recording and editing with this simple GarageBand project. Other audio workstations work too! This lesson was designed for my high school "Adaptive" music class but could easily be used with Grades 3+
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3rd - 12th
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1960s Song Analysis Listening Centers - Surf Sounds feat. The Beach Boys
This Station Rotation Activity is meant to be paired with and part of a larger unit slideshow called The Suburbanization of Postwar America. Students will use this worksheet to rotate through 4 listening stations (the media is provided in the slideshow as embedded video clips). At Station 1 - students will focus on Vocal Harmonies and listen to two songs - Song 1: “The Things We Did Last Summer,” by the Beach Boys (1963) and Song 2: “Angel Eyes,” by The Four Freshmen (1956). Ask students to thin
Grades:
6th - 9th
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Also included in: English 8 - Entire Year: Activities, Projects, Rubrics, Exams, Homework
Serving Sizes
This song helps students understand serving sizes. Measuring spoons, measuring cups, and the hand are mentioned in the song as ways of measuring serving sizes. Nutrition facts are also mentioned in the song as well.
Grades:
9th - 12th
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An Inclusive Keyboard Method Book
An inclusive keyboard method specifically developed to reach learners of all cognitive abilities.
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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Morning Circle Time
This is a Morning Circle PowerPoint that can be used for preschool and early childhood students, students with disabilities, and students with vision impairments.Students with vision impairments, including cortical vision impairments, are more successful when materials are presented on a black background. The slideshow can be modified with your students names and pictures. Slides include days of the week song, ABC song, letter of the week - A, Number of the Week - 1, Shapes, and 3 Movement Song
Grades:
PreK - 12th
The Main Idea
This song helps students understand the main idea of a paragraph.
The repetitive chorus of this song directs students to:
Read
Think
Ask..."What's the point of this paragraph?"
*Song lyric sheet available upon request.
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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The Friendly Letter Dance
The five parts of a letter are easy to remember with this catchy song and dance written by Dawn Rainbowstar. Sung to the tune of The Addams Family, your students will LOVE singing and dancing their way into the perfect friendly letter!
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1st - 12th
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The 7 Continents-An Introduction
This song helps introduce the seven continents. The song focuses on counting the seven continents, and also includes details about the continents being large masses of land and the oceans running between them. The song also lists the continents.
The 7 Continents by Amanda G. Ellis, MT-BC is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Based on a work at www.morewithmusic.org.
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5th - 12th
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