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Grade 7 - Academic Standards Alignment

Just because the songs don''t address many 7th grade standards, does not mean it is not useful for 7th graders...unless all your students have mastered the standards from grades K-6.

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.

2.1 Sing a repertoire of vocal literature representing various genres, 
styles, and cultures with expression, technical accuracy, tone quality, 
vowel shape, and articulation written and memorized, by oneself and 
in ensembles (level of difficulty: 2 on a scale of 1-6).
 
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.

R2.0 Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate 
material. They describe and connect the essential ideas, 
arguments, and perspectives of the text by using their knowledge of 
text structure, organization, and purpose.
 
Polly Wolly Prefix
 
 
The Writer''s Song
 
W1.7 Revise writing to improve organization and word choice after 
checking the logic of the ideas and the precision of the vocabulary.

WOEL1.6 Use correct capitalization.
 
Plural Y and F
 
 
Parts of Speech
 
WOEL1.3 Identify all parts of speech and types and structure of 
sentences.
 
Talk-Talk Song
 
WOEL1.4 Demonstrate the mechanics of writing (e.g., quotation 
marks
...)
 
4 Kinds of Sentences
 
WOEL1.3 Identify all parts of speech and types and structure of 
sentences.
 
Synonym Antonym Homonym Chant
 
 
Fiction Doodle Dandy
 
 
Angles Song
 
 
Parallel and Perpendicular
 
 
Triangle Bush
 
 
Quadrilateral
 
MG2.1 Use formulas routinely for finding the perimeter and area of 
basic two-dimensional figures and the surface area and volume of 
basic three-dimensional figures, including rectangles, 
parallelograms, trapezoids, squares, triangles, circles, prisms, and 
cylinders.
 
Perimeter Area Song
 
MG2.1 Use formulas routinely for finding the perimeter and area of 
basic two-dimensional figures and the surface area and volume of 
basic three-dimensional figures, including rectangles, 
parallelograms, trapezoids, squares, triangles, circles, prisms, and 
cylinders.
 
Measurement Song
 
 
All Skip Counting Songs (3 Song, etc.)