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Washington DC Grade 3 Music Standards
Every Grade 3 standard from the DC Arts Standards: Music, grouped by strand, with the Prodigies PK-5 lessons that teach each one.
Grade 3 has 26 music standards in Washington DC: Listen to, analyze, and evaluate music (6); Sing and perform on instruments alone and with others (9); Improvise, arrange, and compose music (3); Read and notate music (3); Connect music to other art forms and subject areas (5).
Prodigies PK-5 has a lesson for 13 of 26 of them.
| Official name | DC Arts Standards: Music |
|---|---|
| Published by | Office of the State Superintendent of Education, DC |
| Adopted | 2009 |
| Grades on this page | Grade 3 |
| Standards on this page | 26 |
| Code format | 3.1.E1 |
| Organized by | Listen to, analyze, and evaluate music, Sing and perform on instruments alone and with others, Improvise, arrange, and compose music, Read and notate music, Connect music to other art forms and subject areas |
| Official source | osse.dc.gov |
The Grade 3 standards
Listen to, analyze, and evaluate music 6
3.1.E1Demonstrate appropriate audience behavior and contribute to a post-concert discussion of performance events, likes and dislikes.
3.1.E2Use music vocabulary (e.g. tempo - speed, dynamics - loud/soft, pitch - high/low, rhythm - beat, and mood - feeling) to describe music.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Strumming Basics (5, Wk 22); Rhythim Review (2, Wk 4); Guava Review (2, Wk 12); Itsy Bitsy Spider (2, Wk 31)
3.1.E3Respond through physical movement to selected prominent music characteristics to specific music events while listening to music (e.g., changes in pitch direction, and dynamics).
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Dynamics (2, Wk 23); Soft & Loud (K, Wk 15); Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Lightly Row Performance Part II- Song + Analysis (2, Wk 34)
3.1.L1Identify simple musical forms, emphasizing verse/refrain, AB and ABA forms.
3.1.L2Identify ascending/descending melody in selected pieces of music.
3.1.L3Identify the four orchestral families (woodwind, string, brass, percussion) by and sound and the way in which sound is produced on various instruments.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Semitones (3, Wk 32); Chord Theory Part I (5, Wk 30); Recorder Page 1 - Basic Techniques (4, Wk 1); Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9)
Sing and perform on instruments alone and with others 9
3.2.P1Perform (by printed notation note) major and minor scales.
3.2.P2Perform on instruments using a wide range of tempos and dynamics.
3.2.P3Perform in a two-part music ensemble.
3.2.P4Identify and perform sets of beats that are grouped in twos and threes using descriptive terminology to identify which beats are strong and which beats are weak.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Fourths Part I (3, Wk 14); Introduction to Intervals (3, Wk 6); Intervals in C Major (3, Wk 7); Seconds - Part II (3, Wk 9)
3.2.P5Maintain instruments, voice, performance and practice areas carefully responsibly.
3.2.S1Sing from memory a variety seasonal, game, folk, and patriotic songs or without accompaniment.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: C Major Deskbells Review (2, Wk 26); Skidamarink (2, Wk 30); Hello Am Chord Part I (5, Wk 13); Hello C Chord Part II (5, Wk 9)
3.2.S2Develop a repertoire of familiar from diverse cultures, including melodies, rounds/canons, partner songs, and songs with ostinatos and meters in 2, 3, and 4.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Page 5 - B A G Shield Patterns (4, Wk 5); Recorder Squire 2 - Warm Up #1 (4, Wk 8); Hello Am Chord Part II (5, Wk 14); Strumming Bonus Tip (5, Wk 23)
3.2.S3Sing in tune with clear tone quality, dynamics, phrasing, pitch, diction, and interpretation.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder Squire 3 - Hot Cross Buns (4, Wk 9)
3.2.S4Sing melodies within the range octave.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Color Coding Your Ukulele (5, Wk 7); Hello Am Chord Part I (5, Wk 13); Steady Beat with Sweet Beats (K, Wk 2)
Improvise, arrange, and compose music 3
3.3.1Compose, arrange, and improvise accompaniments and ostinato (melodic, rhythmic) for songs and chants.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Holding your Ukulele (5, Wk 5); Holiday Songs (1, Wk 17); Welcome to Music (K, Wk 1)
3.3.2Improvise lyrics to familiar melodies and new verses to songs.
3.3.3Compose music to enhance stories poems.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: When The Saints Go Marching In Performance (3, Wk 35); Recorder Page 4 - B A Shield Patterns (4, Wk 4); Recorder Squire 4 - Gently Sleep (4, Wk 10); Singing (2, Wk 21)
Read and notate music 3
3.4.1Read (using rhythmic solfege) half, quarter, eighth, dotted half, whole notes, rests.
3.4.2Read (sing) short melodic patterns move up and down and repeat using syllables (e.g., do, re, mi, etc.).
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Beet and Melon (K, Wk 3); Beet & Watermelon (K, Wk 16); Hand Signs (K, Wk 28); The Itsy Bitsy Spider (PK, Wk 15)
3.4.3Identify symbols (icons/terms) (f - forte) and soft (p - piano).
Connect music to other art forms and subject areas 5
3.5.H1Sing songs and play singing games from various cultures.
3.5.H2Identify and describe roles (past present) of musicians in and/or from Washington, D.C.
3.5.H3Recognize the influence of various cultures on music Washington, D.C.
3.5.S1Explore meaning and relationships terms that express "melody" among the (e.g., melody, theme, subject, line, main idea, etc.).
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Recorder King/Queen 6 - Au Clair de la Lune (4, Wk 27); Itsy Bitsy Spider (2, Wk 31); The Itsy Bitsy Spider (1, Wk 30); 5 Note Melodies (1, Wk 27)
3.5.S2Develop and use symbolic representations of number patterns.
Taught in Prodigies PK-5: Welcome (5, Wk 1); Hello C (PK, Wk 1); Best Friends, C and G (PK, Wk 4); Do Mi Sol Slide (PK, Wk 5)
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The Washington DC Grade 3 music standards checklist
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