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Grade 6 - Academic Standards Alignment

Just because the songs don''t address many 6th grade standards, does not mean it is not useful for 6th graders...unless all your students have mastered the standards from grades K-5.

Song
Standard(s) Addressed
All Songs
 
Music Standards

2.0 CREATIVE EXPRESSION
Creating, Performing, and Participating in Music

Students apply vocal and instrumental musical skills in performing a
varied repertoire of music.

Apply Vocal and Instrumental Skills
2.1 Sing with accuracy in a developmentally appropriate range.
2.2 Sing age-appropriate songs from memory.
2.3 Play rhythmic ostinatos on classroom instruments.

Word Recognition
R1.1 Read aloud narrative and expository text fluently and accurately 
and with appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression.
 (Students 
improve fluency as they read song lyrics while singing.)
 
Thinking While You Read
 
R1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary 
Development
Students use their knowledge of...literary context clues, to determine
the meaning of specialized vocabulary and to understand the 
precise meaning of grade-level-appropriate words.

R1.4 Monitor expository text for unknown words or words with novel 
meanings by using word, sentence, and paragraph clues to 
determine meaning.

R2.3 Connect and clarify main ideas by identifying their relationships 
to other sources and related topics.
 
Polly Wolly Prefix
 
 
The Writer''s Song
 
W1.2b Develop the topic with supporting details and precise verbs, 
nouns, and adjectives to paint a visual image in the mind of the 
reader.

W2.1 Write narratives:
a. Establish and develop a plot and setting and present a point of 
view that is appropriate to the stories.
b. Include sensory details and concrete language to develop plot 
and character.
c. Use a range of narrative devices (e.g., dialogue, suspense).
Capitalization
W1.4 Use correct capitalization.
W1.5 Spell frequently misspelled words correctly (e.g., their, they''re, 
there).
 
Plural Y and F
 
 
Parts of Speech
 
W1.2b Develop the topic with supporting details and precise verbs, 
nouns, and adjectives to paint a visual image in the mind of the 
reader.
 
Talk-Talk Song
 
2.1 Write narratives:
Use a range of narrative devices (e.g., 
dialogue, suspense).
 
4 Kinds of Sentences
 
 
Synonym Antonym Homonym Chant
 
 
Fiction Doodle Dandy
 
 
Angles Song
 
MG2.3 Draw quadrilaterals and triangles from given information 
about them (e.g., a quadrilateral having equal sides but no right 
angles, a right isosceles triangle).
 
Parallel and Perpendicular
 
MG2.3 Draw quadrilaterals and triangles from given information 
about them (e.g., a quadrilateral having equal sides but no right 
angles, a right isosceles triangle).
 
Triangle Bush
 
MG2.3 Draw quadrilaterals and triangles from given information 
about them (e.g., a quadrilateral having equal sides but no right 
angles, a right isosceles triangle).
 
Quadrilateral
 
MG2.3 Draw quadrilaterals and triangles from given information 
about them (e.g., a quadrilateral having equal sides but no right 
angles, a right isosceles triangle).
 
Perimeter Area Song
 
 
Measurement Song
 
AF2.1 Convert one unit of measurement to another (e.g., from feet to
miles, from centimeters to inches).
 
All Skip Counting Songs (3 Song, etc.)
 
NS2.4 Determine the least common multiple and the greatest 
common divisor of whole numbers; use them to solve problems 
with fractions (e.g., to find a common denominator to add two 
fractions or to find the reduced form for a fraction).