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This American composers reading and listening activity comes with three worksheets for three different American composers. Each worksheet comes with a blank portrait space for your students to demonstrate artistic creativity! Maybe a rendition of the composer or a space to draw their interpretation of the music. The reading excerpt is short and perfect for emerging readers. This worksheet allows for you as the teacher to decide what excerpt you would like your students to listen to and how you w

This resource contains 6 pages of musical opposite vocabulary cards. They can be used as classroom visuals, on a bulletin board, or even as manipulative for small group instruction. Each pair of opposites contains a card with simplified words like slow, or loud and a card with the appropriate musical term like largo and forte.

This simple word search is perfect for re-enforcing the vocabulary used in sheet music. My students benefit greatly from seeing vocabulary words often and through different forms. This worksheet would be great as an independent center or entrance activity. You could make it a race to see who finishes first or who finds the most terms in a set amount of time!