6th Grade

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).