Third Grade

Creating

Students will conceive & develop new musical ideas and work.

Generate:

• 3:I can improvise rhythmic and melodic patterns and musical ideas

Organize and Develop:

• 3:I can demonstrate selected musical ideas for a simple improvisation or composition to express intent, and describe connection to a specific purpose and context

Refine and Complete:

• 3:I can present the final version of personal created music to others, and describe connection to expressive intent.

Presenting

Students will realize musical ideas and work through interpretation and presentation.

Select, Analyze, Interpret:

• 3:I can demonstrate knowledge of musical form, read notation, and describe how context can inform a performance.

Develop and Refine:

• 3:I can apply teacher provided and collaboratively-developed criteria to evaluate musicianship of a performance

Convey Meaning:

• 3:I can perform music with expression and technical accuracy, and demonstrate performance and audience etiquette

Responding

Students will understand and evaluate how music conveys meaning.

Analyze:

• 3:I can describe how specific musical concepts are used to support a specific purpose in music

Interpret:

• 3:I can describe how expressive qualities are used to reflect the performers' expressive intent

Evaluate:

• 3:I can apply teacher-provided criteria to evaluate musical works and performances.

Connecting

Students will relate musical ideas and work with personal meaning and external context.

Synthesize:

• 3:I can make connections between music and my own life

Relate:

• 3:I can identify connections between music and other disciplines