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🎵 5th Grade · MusicMU:Pr4.2Unit 2: Melody & the staff

The treble staff

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🎯 Objective: Students name lines and spaces (EGBDF, FACE).

Lesson outline

  1. Floor staff game.
  2. Practice.
  3. Quiz.
  4. Exit: name three notes.

Lesson 1 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

MU:Pr4.2

National Core Arts Standards — General Music (grade band 3–5)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Read notes on the treble staff
  • Sing and play simple melodies

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

⏱️ Countdown timer⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Melody & the staff”

  1. The treble staff
  2. Recorder basics
  3. Melodic direction
  4. Compose a melody

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