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High school writing-expository 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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Poetry Analysis With Hero Themed Music / Song Lyrics
If your students love music as much as mine do they will love this music analysis activity! Students are asked to listen to / read the lyrics for songs with a Hero Theme. They must choose their two favorites and discuss the meaning of the songs and why they like it. I also allow my students to pick any other song that they can find that relates to the hero theme. Works well with a poetry unit, music study, Hero Unit or as a fun emergency sub plan! Includes:-Assignment Sheet-Hero Brainstorming
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7th - 10th
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Also included in: Poetry Activities Writing, Analysis and Review Poetry Unit
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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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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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
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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Finding Poetic elements and figurative language in Katy Perry's "Roar"
Using Katy Perry's "Roar" song, students are asked to find similes, metaphors, and idioms as well as poetic elements such as alliteration, assonance, rhyme, and repetition. As a closure activity, students are asked what they would like to "ROAR" about and use their answers to help introduce opinion writing.
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7th - 12th
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Holiday Song Analysis & Informational Research: "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
Listening to holiday songs in the classroom can add to the spirit of the season, but often those popular songs have an interesting origin and meaning. The song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” by Band Aid (1984) is one example of “festive” music with a meaningful history. This lesson can stretch over 3+ days and lead to great class discussions about the meaning behind song lyrics.
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8th - 12th
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Man in the Mirror Reflection
Students follow along to the lyrics as they listen to "Man in the Mirror" by Michael Jackson. Students reflect on the meaning of the song and apply it to themselves. Teachers are also presented an opportunity to discuss figurative language, grammar, and poetry as well as ample connections to the real world.
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3rd - 12th
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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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I Am An Excellent Writer MP3 Download
I Am An Excellent Writer is a fun and exciting educational writing rap MP3 download that will help students build their writing skills and pass standardized writing exams. The songs on this MP3 download will help remind students of the skills necessary to write an excellent paper.Instrumental versions were included on the MP3 download to inspire students to creatively write poems.1. Intro2. Excellent Writer3. Excellent Writer~Fast4. Focus~Expository5. Focus~Narrative6. P-E-R-S-U-A-S-I-V-E7. Outr
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K - 12th
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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
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3rd - 9th
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Hey Write a Paper! (How to Write a 5 Paragraph Essay Song) Full Demo
Music is a great way to remember facts and processes, so when my middle school students struggled with remembering the basic process and format for a 5 paragraph essay, I decided to put the information to music. What came of the experiment is to the tune of Macarena -- "Hey, Write a Paper!" This is a full demo which includes a PowerPoint version of the lyrics and slides that link from the lyrics to definitions of the terms used. This version is sung; there is an instrumental version available
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4th - 12th
Hey, Write a Paper! (How to Write a 5 Paragraph Essay Song) Instrumental Version
Music is a great way to remember facts and processes, so when my middle school students struggled with remembering the basic process and format for a 5 paragraph essay, I decided to put the information to music. What came of the experiment is to the tune of Macarena -- "Hey, Write a Paper!" This version includes a PowerPoint version of the lyrics and slides that link from the lyrics to definitions of the terms used and back in addition to the music that plays along with the appropriate lyrics
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Grades:
4th - 12th
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+
Grades:
3rd - 12th
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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 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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Redundancy Introduction "Parked out by the Lake"
Why “this” activity?I recently noticed in my 7th & 8th graders summary writing, they struggle to recognize and eliminate redundant phrases. Rather than drill and kill with redundancy examples, I was hoping to find something they might enjoy while linking to a cultural reference. Since I teach in SW Missouri, country music is an easy link to make for my kids. The song “Parked Out By The Lake” played on my favorite morning show, and I knew this would be how my kids could discuss redundancy
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6th - 12th
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Dictionaries
This song helps students learn about dictionaries.
This song defines dictionaries as books that tell what words mean.
The song mentions alphabetical order, how to say the word, and word meanings.
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6th - 12th
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Fiction, Non-Fiction
This song introduces the differences between fiction and nonfiction books.
Grades:
5th - 12th
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