Music Integrated Literacy Lesson: Feel the Beat with Tortoise and the Hare

This literacy with music integrated lesson takes around 45 minutes to complete. This is an extension of previous learning about rhythm, beat, and music tempo. The lesson has students singing to the Aesop’s fable: The Tortoise and the Hare's characters according to how fast or slow they are going. This is a great literacy lesson that can incorporate music into your classroom as well as go over morals and sayings such as slow and steady wins the race.

Lesson plan comes with book list and materials needed.