PreK-Early 1st Grade Active Listening Scaffold
Making Music Listening Purposeful & Accessible

This listening response scaffold is most ideally used to make instrumental listening tasks accessible to PreK-Early 1st grade students. 

Often, when students are be asked to simply draw what they imagine we tend to get drawings of instruments that may or may not be in the song or a picture of a stage -- This scaffold allows students to compartmentalize what they're listening to, first by identifying some familiar instruments that they hear, then identifying the overall emotion/tone of the song, then illustrating a scene they imagine would fit the mood created by the music, then finally allowing space for students to give an opinion on the music they're hearing. 

This scaffold is best used after significant teacher/whole class-modeling.  

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