Grade 8 - Academic Standards Alignment
Just because the songs don''t address many 8th grade standards, does not mean it is not useful for 8th graders...unless all your students have mastered the standards from grades K-7.
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 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: 3 on a scale of 1-6).
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
W2.2c Draw supported inferences about the effects of a literary work
on its audience.
Polly Wolly Prefix
The Writer''s Song
W1.6 Revise writing for word choice
W2.1 Write biographies, autobiographies, short stories, or narratives:
a. Relate a clear, coherent incident, event, or situation by using
well-chosen details.
c. Employ narrative and descriptive strategies (e.g., relevant
dialogue, specific action, physical description, background
description, comparison or contrast of characters).
WOEL1.5 Use correct punctuation and capitalization.
WOEL1.6 Use correct spelling conventions.
Plural Y and F
Parts of Speech
Talk-Talk Song
W1.3 Support theses or conclusions with...quotations...
4 Kinds of Sentences
Synonym Antonym Homonym Chant
Fiction Doodle Dandy
Angles Song
Parallel and Perpendicular
Triangle Bush
Quadrilateral
Perimeter Area Song
Measurement Song
All Skip Counting Songs (3 Song, etc.)