Prepare your room or department with a bundle of high-quality cover worksheets! Perfect for last-minute absences, exam cover, homework, quiet lessons and more, this set of 34 different worksheets cover a range of topics and are no-prep, no/minimal tech and do not require any prior knowledge or a specialist teacher.
This bundle contains my best-selling set of sub plans, a set of differentiated wordsearches and classical composer worksheets with reading comprehension and questions.
Nobody likes leaving mindless mindless work for their classes with a cover/sub teacher. Do you need to engage your students in your absence, and want them to use their brains? These worksheets and wordsearches will solve your problems!
No prep - just print and go
Differentiated
Suitable for non-specialists
Students work independently
No tech/minimal tech
The range of topics makes these suitable for all kinds of classes - general music, band, choir etc. They are also open enough, and include differentiated versions, so they are appropriate for a wide range of year group levels, saving you time and money by not purchasing multiple sub plans or cover work packets.
I really hope you find this product useful! I have used these successfully with my classes for years and they are so convenient for leaving when I am absent.
Following on from Books 1-3, this series of theory workbooks will introduce your pupils to more advanced theory concepts, such as chord inversions, more key signatures and Italian terms.
Do you need music workbooks that are not babyish? Are your older learners put off by cute clipart and exercises counting animals? Are you looking for a theory course which will lead on to more complex work? THIS is why I created this course!
This bundle contains books 4-6 in the series. Topics included are:
Simple Time Groupings
Further Key Signatures
Relative Minors
Chords I, IV and V
Triplets
Further Tempo
Enharmonic
Transpose an Octave
More Signs and Symbols
Further Compound Time
Compound Time Groupings
Arpeggios
Minor Scales
Chords in Major Keys
Chords in Minor Keys
Ornaments
Cadences
Transcribing Between Clefs
Pentatonic Scales
Other Time Signatures
More Key Signatures
Inversions
Further Italian Terms
More Cadences
Circle of Fifths
Transposing
Further Intervals
More Triads
More Chord Types
Each workbook also contains space for students to make notes, and a self-reflection task for them to evaluate their progress, ideal for your tracking and reporting each semester. 2 versions of each booklet are included, one with USA terms (staff, whole note, measure etc) and one with UK terms (stave, semibreve, bar etc).
The printable workbooks are in PDF format. Each is 14 pages long. Every topic has clear explanations and two written tasks for your students to complete. These booklets are versatile and can be used in class, as homework, with whole classes or even by individual piano teachers or instrumental teachers on a one-to-one basis. They designed to be worked through in order, spending a little time each lesson on theory over an extended period of time, supplementing your usual curriculum.
I have used this series for years with my own students, usually from age 10-16, but the clear layout makes it suitable for any age. I have also used it with adult beginner piano pupils, who did not want to work from materials aimed at children. Please let me know how you use it!
These theory workbooks are not affiliated with any particular curriculum or examination board, but are at roughly the following levels.
Books 4-6 cover approximately:
ABRSM grade 2 theory
Trinity grade 2 theory
LCM grade 2 theory
RCM Canada grade 3
AMEB Australia grade 2
Scottish SQA Higher and Advanced Higher
England/Wales GCSE/Key Stage 4
Ideal for music lessons, cover teachers, homework or quiet written work, this set of 10 worksheets each include a reading passage and ten associated questions. Ten different classical composers are featured including female composers.
Assign it on paper or digitally. Students answer on blank paper/document so the printed sheets can be reused. Easy printing in greyscale/black and white and on letter size or A4 paper.
The reading comprehension passages have been carefully crafted for lower secondary reading level. Care has been taken to use dyslexia-friendly font, font size 14+ and 1.5 line spacing to allow easy reading for all pupils.
The questions range from simple fact-finding to more reflective and thought-provoking, such as “Where and when was the composer born?” and “Why do you think the composer moved to Vienna?”.
The worksheets require no prior knowledge and no teacher input so they can be used with a wide range of classes and abilities, students can work independently with no technology requirements, and they are ideal to leave for a non-specialist substitute teacher.
Composers included:
Isaac Albéniz
Ludwig van Beethoven
Hildegard von Bingen
Claude Debussy
Scott Joplin
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Henry Purcell
Clara Schumann
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Antonio Vivaldi
Each worksheet usually lasts a lesson but if you have more able or older students, or longer periods, you might want to use two per lesson, or add in a classroom game to fill up the end of the lesson!