Grade 7

Just because the songs don”t address many 7th grade standards, does not mean it is not useful for 7th grades…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 Song

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

Measurement Song

All Skip Counting Songs (3 Song, etc.)