Standards
Music
Grades K-4
Content Standard 3 Improvising melodies, variations, and accompaniments
Achievement Standard: Students improvise short songs and instrumental pieces, using a variety of sound sources, including traditional sounds (e.g., voices, instruments), nontraditional sounds available in the classroom (e.g., paper tearing, pencil tapping), body sounds (e.g., hands clapping, fingers snapping), and sounds produced by electronic means (e.g., personal computers and basic MIDI devices, including keyboards, sequencers, synthesizers, and drum machines)
National Standards for Arts Education ( ArtsEdge of J.F.Kennedy Center)
Language Arts
Reading
Standard 7: Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts
Grades K-2
3. Summarizes information found in texts (e.g., retells in own words)
Grades 3-5
1. Uses reading skills and strategies to understand a variety of informational texts (e.g., textbooks, biographical sketches, letters, diaries, directions, procedures, magazines)
1. Uses reading skills and strategies to understand a variety of informational texts (e.g., textbooks, biographical sketches, letters, diaries, directions, procedures, magazines)
Writing
Standard 1: Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process
Grades K-2
8. Writes for different purposes (e.g., to entertain, inform, learn, communicate ideas)
8. Writes for different purposes (e.g., to entertain, inform, learn, communicate ideas)
Grades 3-5
5. Uses strategies (e.g., adapts focus, organization, point of view; determines knowledge and interests of audience) to write for different audiences (e.g., self, peers, teachers, adults)
6. Uses strategies (e.g., adapts focus, point of view, organization, form) to write for a variety of purposes (e.g., to inform, entertain, explain, describe, record ideas)
6. Uses strategies (e.g., adapts focus, point of view, organization, form) to write for a variety of purposes (e.g., to inform, entertain, explain, describe, record ideas)
Listening & Speaking
Standard 8: Uses listening and speaking strategies for different purposes
Grades K-2
1. Makes contributions in class and group discussions (e.g., reports on ideas and personal knowledge about a topic, initiates conversations, connects ideas and experiences with those of others)
Grades 3-5
1. Contributes to group discussions
7. Makes basic oral presentations to class (e.g., uses subject-related information and vocabulary; includes content appropriate to the audience; relates ideas and observations; incorporates visual aids or props; incorporates several sources of information)
Viewing
Standard 9: Uses viewing skills and strategies to understand and interpret visual media
Grades K-2
1. Understands the main idea or message in visual media (e.g., pictures, cartoons, weather reports on television, newspaper photographs, visual narratives)
Grades 3-5
1. Understands different messages conveyed through visual media (e.g., main ideas and supporting details; facts and opinions; main characters, setting, and sequence of events in visual narratives)
