- STEP 1: Ask students to think about words that only have one syllable; write them down as a list and at the top of the list, write a quarter note stick ( | )
- STEP 2: Then, ask students to think about words that only have two syllables; write them down as a list as well, but at the top of this list, write two eighth notes joined together ( | | ).
- STEP 3: Follow the same step as number 2, except this time you are looking for 4-syllable words. On the top of this list, write four sixteenth notes joined together ( | | | | )
- STEP 4: Have students clap out each word so that they can feel the rhythmic value of their selections. Add specific instruments to quarter, eighth, and sixteenth note words.
- STEP 5: Create musical word sentences using a combination of the words from each column and the stick notation.
- STEP 6: Read the sentences and perform them with the instruments for each note type.
- STEP 7: Take away the voices and perform the musical word sentences with instruments only.
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