Grade 8
Grade 8
Just because the songs don”t address many 8th grade standards, does not mean it is not useful for 8th graders…unless all your students have mastered the standards from grades K-7.
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| All Songs | Music Standards 2.0 CREATIVE EXPRESSION Creating, Performing, and Participating in Music Students apply vocal and instrumental musical skills in performing a varied repertoire of music. Apply Vocal and Instrumental Skills 2.1 Sing a repertoire of vocal literature representing various genres, styles, and cultures with expression, technical accuracy, tone quality, vowel shape, and articulation written and memorized, by oneself and in ensembles (level of difficulty: 3 on a scale of 1-6). Word Recognition R1.1 Read aloud narrative and expository text fluently and accurately and with appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression. (Students improve fluency as they read song lyrics while singing.) |
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| Thinking While You Read | W2.2c Draw supported inferences about the effects of a literary work on its audience. |
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| Polly Wolly Prefix | |||
| The Writer”s Song | W1.6 Revise writing for word choice W2.1 Write biographies, autobiographies, short stories, or narratives: a. Relate a clear, coherent incident, event, or situation by using well-chosen details. c. Employ narrative and descriptive strategies (e.g., relevant dialogue, specific action, physical description, background description, comparison or contrast of characters). WOEL1.5 Use correct punctuation and capitalization. WOEL1.6 Use correct spelling conventions. |
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| Plural Y and F | |||
| Parts of Speech | |||
| Talk-Talk Song | W1.3 Support theses or conclusions with…quotations… | ||
| 4 Kinds of Sentences | |||
| Synonym Antonym Homonym Chant | |||
| Fiction Doodle Dandy | |||
| Angles Song | |||
| Parallel and Perpendicular | |||
| Triangle Song | |||
| Quadrilateral | |||
| Perimeter Area Song | |||
| Measurement Song | |||
| All Skip Counting Songs (3 Song, etc.) |