The Grade 1 Music Theory pack, which is based on the current ABRSM music theory syllabus (2020 onwards), contains 26 games and activities plus 10 music quizzes. The games have been designed to require minimal preparation. Board games can be played immediately after printing. Games cards have straight edges and are accurately lined up so that they can cut quickly. The games take an average of five minutes to play, meaning they can easily be used within a weekly instrumental lesson. The music quizzes are based on typical exam papers but condensed into one A4 sheet each, making them quicker to complete than full papers and reducing printing costs. Both UK and US terminology has been used where required.
Download a free sample quiz here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/grade-1-music-theory-sample-quiz-12301641
Contents:
Accidentals
Accidentals Quiz Flashcards
Circle time. Accidentals board game.
Clefs
Treble or bass? A game of two clefs board game
Treble or Bass Flashcards – single and double sided
Intervals and degrees
Intervals Matching Pairs
Intervals Dominoes
Degrees Matching Pairs
Fish Frenzy board game: Degrees
Key signatures
Key Signatures Matching Puzzle
Key words
Key Words Flashcards
Hexagon Takeover board game – key words
Note and rest lengths
Help sheet (UK/US)
Two Paths board game – rests
Jumpmania board game – note lengths (UK/US)
The Lengthy Spiral board game (2 levels)
Rests Dominoes (2 levels)
Note pitches
Two Paths board game – letters
Drawing Showdown – writing notes
Jumpmania board game – treble clef notes
Jumpmania board game – bass clef notes
Pitches Matching Pairs
Time signatures and bar lines
Time Signatures Brain Twister card game
Time to Race board game – time signatures
Tones and semitones
Tone or Semitone? (Whole step or half step) Flashcards (UK/US single and double sided)
Fish Frenzy board game - Counting semitones/half steps
Ten Music Quizzes with answers
Here’s what Tim Spoerer, founder of Jam-Bus, had to say about our Grade 1 and 2 Music Theory Packs:
“Last year I ran my first Music Theory Class with Years 5 & 6. It was an enormous success with the vast majority achieving Distinction Grades. It was largely in thanks to Teaching with Ease’s excellent music games. I set up the “Music Theory Games Arcade” for them every lesson and they really loved it. It gave a really fun thing to look forward to in lessons.
“Once the PDFs were downloaded, I could print them and laminate them meaning we can use them time and time again in the build up to their exams.”
Challenge your pupils to recognise poetry themed definitions with this bingo game. There are 30 different boards; enough for every child in your class.
Definitions: acrostic, alliteration, assonance, ballad, couplet, free verse, haiku, half-rhyme, internal rhyme, kenning, limerick, metaphor, narrative poem, onomatopoeia, personification, rap, repetition, riddle, rhyme, rhyme pattern, shape poem, simile, sonnet, syllable, stanza
The set includes a definition answer sheet for the teacher.
This resource is also available as part of the complete Poetry Pack at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/poetry-pack-11817993?theme=1
Value your time, and smash your progress targets with our comprehension packs.
Download the sample pack for free. This contains examples of our comprehensions from Reception to Year 6.
With a range of text types, dedicated grammar and vocabulary tasks, textual analysis and comprehension questions, you will be all set for any reading block. And for those of you who need to track each child’s progress, our handy 5 and 7-page trackers will allow you to identify the reading skills taught and give you the evidence you need for your folder.
This resource can be used at the start of the year as a quick revision of the four different sentence types. Towards the end of the year use it to consolidate the year’s teaching.
This Easter themed pack is aimed at beginner musicians working at pre-grade 1 to grade 1 music theory level.
It includes:
14 page Easter activity booklet covering note letters and lengths, rest lengths, time signatures, bar lines, dynamics and tempo. This comes in UK and US versions, plus answer booklets.
Easter Note Name Matching Cards
Easter Scramble: An Easter board game featuring note letters and lengths, and rest lengths
Easter Words and Notes Mat
Make your way to the top of the board without treading on any of those treacherous snakes. Land on a spell square for the chance to get ahead by proving your spelling knowledge.
The game includes word sets for Years 1 to 6 based on the National Spelling Appendix with 40-54 words per year group.
Value your time, and smash your progress targets with our comprehension packs.
With a range of text types, dedicated grammar and vocabulary tasks, textual analysis and comprehension questions, you will be all set for any reading block. And for those of you who need to track each child’s progress, our handy 5-page trackers will allow you to identify the reading skills taught and give you the evidence you need for your folder. Aimed at Year 3 and Year 4 (or Grade 2/3), these packs can be used for reading intervention students in Year 5 and 6.
20 texts with answers.
*Please note, you will need to extract/unzip the files after downloading to ensure they all open correctly.
Also available in the same format:
Year 3: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-3-comprehension-pack-11756550
Year 4: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-4-comprehension-pack-11743575
Year 5: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-5-comprehension-pack-11744442
Year 6: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-6-comprehension-pack-11744450
Year 4 and 5: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-4-and-5-comprehension-pack-11744464
Year 5 and 6: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-5-and-6-comprehension-pack-11744465
Year 3 to 6: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-3-to-6-comprehension-pack-11756548
Improve your students’ sense of rhythm with this bumper pack of Clapping Rhythms.
This set contains 120 clapping rhythm solos and 50 clapping rhythm duets with equal parts.
It features 12 levels, each with 10 four-bar solos and 5 four-bar duets.
Every level introduces a new musical element:
Crotchets/quarter notes & rests. 4/4 time
3/4 time
Minim/half notes & rests. 2/4 time
Semibreve/whole notes, dotted minims/ dotted half notes, paired quavers/eighth notes and rests
Single quavers/eighth notes and rests
Dotted crotchets/dotted quarter notes
Semiquavers/sixteenth notes
6/8, 9/8, 12/8 time (compound time)
Compound time with offbeat notes
Triplets
Ties
Recap: Selection of all rhythms
It costs only £8. That’s just 33p per page!
Download a free sample set here: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/clapping-rhythms-sample-set-12030292
Use your detective skills to find the syllables and complete this match game in record time.
Syllable Search contains 9 words with 3-6 syllables and matching syllable number cards.
This resource is also available as part of the complete Poetry Pack at https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/poetry-pack-11817993?theme=1
Ensure your children are confident with all the key aspects of grammar for Year 6 with these progress checks. The pack includes six checks, each with 20 questions. That’s one for each half term. The questions cover the range of grammar required in the UK National Curriculum for Year 6. The pack also includes a handy class tracker, which breaks down the children’s results into each area of grammar so you can view their progress at a glance.
Answers are included.
This resource is also available as part of the Year 3-6 Grammar Progress Checks pack: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-3-6-grammar-progress-checks-11818724
*Please note, you will need to extract/unzip the files after downloading to ensure they all open correctly.
Ensure your children are confident with all the key aspects of grammar for Year 3 with these progress checks. The pack includes six checks, each with 20 questions. That’s one for each half term. The questions cover the range of grammar required in the UK National Curriculum for Year 3. The pack also includes a handy class tracker, which breaks down the children’s results into each area of grammar so you can view their progress at a glance.
Answers are included.
This resource is also available as part of the Year 3-6 Grammar Progress Checks pack: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-3-6-grammar-progress-checks-11818724
*Please note, you will need to extract/unzip the files after downloading to ensure they all open correctly.
Encourage your children to remember key grammatical terms with our take on the classic game of Bingo!
It includes the important terminology that pupils will need to succeed in the Year 6 SATs.
Terms included: active, adjective, adverb, adverbial, ambiguity, antonym, apostrophe, bracket, bullet points, capital letter, clause, cohesion, colon, command, conjunction, dash, determiner, direct speech, ellipsis, full stop, hyphen, modal verb, noun, noun phrase, object, parenthesis, passive, past tense, plural, possessive pronoun, present tense, pronoun, prefix, preposition, relative clause, relative pronoun, semi-colon, singular, speech marks, subject, subordinate clause, suffix, synonym, question, vowel, word family.
The pack contains 32 boards so there are enough for the whole class. Give definitions of a grammatical terms or ask a child to give a definition. Pupils with the matching grammatical term must cross it off and the first person to cross off all their terms wins. To assess and reinforce understanding, ask a child to give the answer after each term has been described.
Suitable for whole class or small group work.
These AfL cards are a quick and easy way to remember ways of assessing the children during lessons. Hole punch them and put them on a key ring as a constant reminder.
Never be caught short during your reading instruction again. 100% guaranteed to work without Wi-Fi!
These 56 task cards cover 8 text types including narrative, description, persuasion, argument, poetry, general non-fiction, biography and autobiography. Each text type is colour coded for ease of instruction.
Give a set to each group to use independently, use them with a small group or even use them for your own reference.
Your poetry unit will be a dream with our poetry pack.
Contains:
Editable poetry success criteria covering performance poetry, analysing poems, free verse, planning and redrafting poetry, comprehending poetry, haiku and narrative poem.
Poetry Definitions Follow Me game for poetry terminology.
30-board Poetry Bingo for poetry terminology.
Rhyming Dominoes
Syllable Search
Buy the whole pack at the discounted price of £10. The resources are also available individually.
*Please note, you will need to extract/unzip the files after downloading to ensure they all open correctly.
Put your students’ note reading skills to the test with these fun Musical Note Word Searches. This pack contains 10 different word searches, each with four words to find.
It features four 6×5 bass clef word searches and six 8×5 bass clef word searches.
The words to find are given in normal English underneath the puzzle. Each word search square has a musical note on the stave (staff if you are in the US!). Pitch notation G2 to C4. Students need to find the words in the grid. They are written in simple horizontal or vertical directions. An answer sheet is included.
You can buy the treble clef pack individually here or purchase the full treble and bass clef version at a discounted rate here.
Give your students clear guidance on how to proofread with this easy-to-understand guide. It can be stuck into their books or attached to a keyring for easy reference.
Included:
- Quick accuracy checklist
- Capital letters and end of sentence punctuation
- Making simple sentences more interesting
- Writing compound and complex sentences
- Expanding your punctuation use
Value your time, and smash your progress targets with our comprehension packs.
With a range of text types, dedicated grammar and vocabulary tasks, textual analysis and comprehension questions, you will be all set for any reading block. And for those of you who need to track each child’s progress, our handy 5-page tracker will allow you to identify the reading skills taught and give you the evidence you need for your folder. Aimed at Year 5 (or Grade 4), these packs can be used for reading intervention students in Year 6.
10 texts with answers.
*Please note, you will need to extract/unzip the files after downloading to ensure they all open correctly.
Harness your unicorns and race them around the board in this magical time signature game.
In Unicorns Forever, players are challenged to create matching sets of time signatures and bars using a variety of note and rest cards.
The game uses the 2/4, 3/4 and 4/4 time signatures. Note and rest lengths included are semibreves (whole notes), dotted minims (dotted half notes), minims (half notes), dotted crotchets (dotted quarter notes), crotchets (quarter notes), dotted quavers (dotted eighth notes), quavers (eighth notes) and semiquavers (sixteenth notes). The rhythms have all been made up to whole beats so each note/rest card adds up to one, two, three or four beats.
Players move their unicorn one step around the board for each set they create. For the non-unicorn lovers of the world, the game can also be played with just the cards, seeing who can create the most sets in five or 10 minutes.