Music and Teaching Materials by Susan Paradis

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Note Bingo


Note Bingo

(SP420)

Level: Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

This is a fast Bingo game to review the notes on the Grand Staff. Depending on your time, you can play 3 in a row or black out. If you use a ... (More)
Grand Staff for Dimes


Grand Staff for Dimes

(SP425)

Level: Early Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

This is a grand staff large enough for a student to manipulate a dime (or a small colored stone) up and down the lines and spaces. Young students can often learn better with manipulatives. On this staff they can easily see the C is the landmark note in the middle and can count up and down from there ... (More)
Kandy Key Signatures


Kandy Key Signatures

(SP426)

Level: Early Intermediate

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

Another teacher suggested this worksheet. Give each student a bag of candy corn and use it to to practice placing key signatures. ... (More)
Peppermint Notes


Peppermint Notes

(SP428)

Level: Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

Have fun using peppermints to "write ... (More)
Jewel Notes


Jewel Notes

(SP431)

Level: Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

This is another grand staff to use for learning steps and skips, learning note names, or taking music dictation. I use glass "stones.... (More)

Goofy Piano Card Game


Goofy Piano Card Game

(SP554)

Level: Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

Goofy Piano is played like the Old Maid card game. There are 22 cards. The object of the game is to match up 3 of the same note in different octaves. Students do not want to end up with the goofy piano card! ... (More)
Music Alphabet


Music Alphabet

(SP555)

Level: Early Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

Print several of these for students to arrange the music alphabet, write white key 5 finger scales, arrange the music alphabet backwards, and anything else you can think of. If you print 2 copies, students can start the music alphabet at different places. This is good to use at the first lessons .... (More)

Skittles Board Game


Skittles Board Game

(SP575)

Level: Late Elementary and up

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

This is a really fun board game from Cecilly that you can play with 4 students. Don't let the fact that it is not colorful keep you from using it. Once students put their colorful Skittles on it, it will look good.

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Fish Flash Cards


Fish Flash Cards

(SP582)

Level: Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

This is a 3–page set of single staff flash cards to play fishing games. Make a fishing pole for your students with a dowel, some string, and attach a magnet on the end of the string. Or you can do what I did and buy a toy fishing pole at a dollar store..... (More)

Cover The Keys Game


Cover The Keys Game

(SP583)

Level: Early Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

This is a very simple game for students just learning the names of the notes (keys, to be precise) on the keyboard.  You call out a note and the student covers it with a token. Later, you can also make the game more challenging by using flashcards with the notes on a staff. Two keys ... (More)
Cover the Keys: Alphabet Card Tokens


Cover the Keys: Alphabet Card Tokens

(SP584)

Level: Early Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

Here are some small music alphabet cards to cut out and use to draw and place on the key when playing the Cover the Keys game. I think these cards make the game more fun to play..... (More)

La Notación MusicalLa Notation Musicale


La Notación MusicalLa Notation Musicale

(SP585)

Level: Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

All the world does not use the same names for music notes. If you are from a Spanish or French speaking country, here is the musical notation you can use with your students. There are many games you can play with this, so try them out! 

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Cards for Keyboard toss game posted above


Cards for Keyboard toss game posted above

(SP601)

Level: Early Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

There are two pages to this set of cards for the Keyboard Toss game above. This is a game by Cecilly. There is a set of cards for each hand, one color for the RH and on for the LH. .... (More)

Sharp and Flats Cards For Keyboard Toss Game


Sharp and Flats Cards For Keyboard Toss Game

(SP602)

Level: Late Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

This is a different and somewhat more difficult version of Cecilly.... (More)

Three C's, a Large Grand Staff Activity


Three C's, a Large Grand Staff Activity

(SP603)

Level: Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

This is a large grand staff (22 inches high) for early elementary students to practice moving guide notes around the staff. There are 2 pages to print out which you can attach to make a grand staff. It is called Three C's because we are learning middle C,  treble.... (More)

Notes for Three C's


Notes for Three C's

(SP604)

Level: Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

These are notes to place on the giant staff posted above. I cut the notes out including the inside of the whole and half notes before I laminated them. ... (More)
Snowflake Keyboard Race


Snowflake Keyboard Race

(SP610)

Level: Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

Sub-type2: Seasonal

If you did not play the Shamrock Keyboard Race game last year, you can try it during the winter months with a snowflake graphic.

Print 2 pages of the cards and cut them out.  Give one set to the student and the other set to the teacher..... (More)

Step Skipping Along Game


Step Skipping Along Game

(SP700)

Level: Early Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

Steps and Skips are such an important part of learning to read music that I made a category for them. This game can be played in many ways, with one student or a group. The simple way to play with one student is to hold up a card and the student moves a step or skip on the board. The objective of.... (More)

Cards for Step Skipping Along


Cards for Step Skipping Along

(SP701)

Level: Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

You don.... (More)

Bass Clef Step and Skip Cards


Bass Clef Step and Skip Cards

(SP704)

Level: Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

This is a set of bass clef cards that step, skip, and a few that repeat. You can use them with the Step Skipping Game above, or make up a new game with them.

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Flash Cards for Fly Swatter Games


Flash Cards for Fly Swatter Games

(SP811)

Level: Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

This is a three page set of grand staff flash cards to use with games where students identify notes with by swatting them with a fly swatter. Students love this! Go to my blog to find ideas on how to use these cards! ... (More)
Large Size Fly Flash Cards


Large Size Fly Flash Cards

(SP814)

Level: Elementary

Type: Games

Sub-type: Music Reading

These are larger than my other fly flash cards so they are more helpful for younger students. Give your young student a fly swatter and call out note names for him to swat. Or let him call out note names as he ... (More)