Scope & Sequence: Second Grade Music

Focus Big Ideas Learning Targets Essential Questions

TEKS

All Year 2.3 (A) ● Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior

2.3 (B) ● Music connects to other disciplines
2.4 (C) ● Respond and perform music
2.5 (A) ● Sing tunefully or play classroom instruments,
2.5 (B) including rhythmic and melodic patterns
2.5 (C) independently or in groups
2.6 (A) ● Perform music from diverse cultures and styles
2.6 (C) ● By the end of 2nd grade, all students will be able to
2.6 (D) sing tunefully simple three tone melodies.

Semester 1 Unit 1 Musical concepts * Review learned concepts from previous grades What are the many things that make up music?
2.2 (C) and performance * Melodic patterns s-m-l
2.3 (A) * Rhythmic patterns ta, ti-ti, rest
How do musicians make sure that future generations of
Introduction 2.3 (C)
students can perform their music?
2.6 (C)
to 2.6 (D)
Second Grade How do different styles of music make you feel?

Music
Unit 2 2.1 (D) Musical form *Identify and label simple small form such as AABA and Can music be seen in patterns?
2.2 (A) recognition ABAC
2.4 (A) *Review known rhythms Can music be performed in patterns?
Recognizing *Create rhythmic phrases using known rhythms

Form, Beat and

Rhythm

Unit 3 2.1 (C) Fast/Slow music * Differentiate among tempo Can you hear when elements in music go from faster to
2.2(A) terminology * Label music ​Presto​, ​Moderato​, and ​Andante slower?
2.3(E) * Respond verbally or through movement to tempo changes
Tempo 2.4 (A) Performing music What do musical terms help us know about a piece of music?
2.6 (B) while understanding
Markings 2.6 (C) notation and tempo What do music notation symbols tell us?
And Meter 2.6 (D) markings

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 Unit 4 2.1 (C) Volume terminology *Differentiate between loud/soft adding terms fortissimo and Can you hear when elements in music go from louder to
2.2 (A) pianissimo. softer?
2.2 (B) Pentatonic melodies
Dynamic 2.2.(E) * Read, write and reproduce pentatonic melodic (such as
2.3 (A) s-m-l-d) patterns using staff notation.
Markings and 2.3 (E) What do musical terms help us know about a piece of music?
Pentatonic 2.4 (B) *Create melodic phrases using known pitches
2.6 (C)
Melodies
How do composers indicate different tones in their music?

Semester 2 Unit 5 2.2 (B) Create melodic *Continue to read, write and reproduce pentatonic melodic What can you tell me about the pitches, are they higher or
2.3 (A) Patterns using patterns (such as s-l-m-r-d) using staff notation. lower?
2.3 (A) known pitches
Melodic 2.4 (B) *Create melodic phrases using known pitches
2.6(B)
Concepts *Sing tunefully or play classroom instruments including Where do the skips and steps occur in your melodic pattern?
rhythmic and melodic patterns.

What hands signs do we use for these sounds?

Unit 6 2.2 (A) Rhythmic patterns *Read, write, and reproduce rhythmic patterns using standard How many beats do we sing/play the long sound?
2.3 (A) using half notes and notation in 2/4 meter including half note and half rest.
2.3 (D) half rest
Rhythm 2.4 (A) *Compose and/or improvise using known rhythmic patterns
What are the real names of the long sound/rest?
*Sing tunefully or play classroom instruments including
rhythmic and melodic patterns

*Perform simple part work/harmony including rhythmic Can you perform this pattern using a half note/ Half rest?
ostinati

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 Unit 7 Instruments and *Identify instruments visually and aurally. What is the difference between a brass instrument and a string
2.1(B) Pentatonic Patterns instrument?
2.2(B) *Create pentatonic melodic patterns.
Instrument 2.4(C)
Can you name some instruments from the percussion family?
* Explore new musical ideas using classroom instruments.
Timbres,
Pentatonic Can you identify the instrument in the song selection?

Melodic
Can you identify the pattern? (Pentatonic Scale)
Concepts How many sounds are in the pentatonic scale?

Can you create a song using only the 5 pitches in the

pentatonic pattern?

Unit 8 2.1(A) Choral Voices *Identify choral voices including unison vs. ensemble. What is the difference between unison and ensemble voices?
2.2(B) Where would you hear unison voices?
2.3 (D) Pentatonic Patterns *Perform simple part work/harmony including rhythmic
Voices and ostinati

Pentatonic Can you identify the pattern? (Pentatonic Scale)

Concepts

How many sounds are in the pentatonic scale?

Can you create a song using only the 5 pitches in the

pentatonic pattern?

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