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Projectable Tone Ladders: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Projectable-Solfege-Tone-Ladders–5763584
Get the templates for Solfege Sticks here.
Helpful blog posts:
Staff Manipulatives
What’s So Fetch About Solfege:
Why Write the Room is the Right Idea for Music Class
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Games
King of the Mountain
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Post Office
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Four Corners
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Adventure Games
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Color Composing
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Composing activities are GREAT tools for practice.
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More Activities from The Crew!
Musical Interactions – Solfege Go Fish
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Solfege Go Fish games are designed to get students reading and singing patterns to collect matches. The game play is simple and familiar while challenging students to practice musical concepts. Individual decks for do re mi; sol la mi; and low sol/low la can be played as stand alone games or shuffled together for a broader range of pitches. Each game includes 3 different notation options: 3-line staff, 5-line staff, Curwen hand signs. This game is perfect for centers/stations, small group work, sub plans, and early finisher work.
Musical Interactions – Rhythm Go Fish
Rhythm Go Fish games are designed to get students reading and performing rhythmic patterns to collect matches. The game play is simple and familiar while challenging students to practice musical concepts. Individual decks for quarter note, paired eighth notes, half notes; sixteenth note groupings; and syncopated rhythms can be played as stand alone games or shuffled together for a broader rhythmic challenge. Each game includes stick notation and standard rhythmic notation. This game is perfect for centers/stations, small group work, sub plans, and early finisher work.
Yellow Brick Road Music – Rhythm Chairs Bundle
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The Rhythm Chairs Game Bundle is a physically active and engaging way to teach students beat versus rhythm in the elementary or middle school music classroom. Students sit in the chairs to show how many sounds are on each beat, with each chair representing one beat. With all six sets of Rhythm Chairs Games, students will see and feel the difference between beat and rhythm. Most importantly, they’ll have fun doing it!
Yellow Brick Road Music – Rhythm Chairs Manipulatives
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Looking for a fun and effective way to reinforce rhythmic composition skills? These Rhythm Chairs Printable Manipulatives are the perfect companion to the popular Rhythm Chairs Game or a great stand-alone activity on their own. Whether you’re wrapping up a rhythm lesson or need a quick, low-prep center or sub plan, these printables make rhythm composition easy and engaging. Use them as a supplemental activity after the game or mix things up with a new approach to composing rhythms that your students will love!
Organized Chaos – Rhythm Battle
These rhythm flash card slides are a great way to help students practice and review rhythm notation reading in a fun way! These slides are designed to gradually increase in difficulty as students go through each 4-beat pattern. This bundled set includes sets 1-5, each set adding new rhythms up to and including quarter notes, barred eighth notes, barred sixteenth notes, barred sixteenth/eighth note combinations, half notes, dotted half notes, whole notes, “syncopa” patterns (eighth-quarter-eighth), and quarter, half, and whole rests. I use them with my kindergarten through 6th grade students, but you can use them to review these rhythms with any grade! Each grade level set can also be purchased separately.
Organized Chaos – Music Composition Worksheet Set
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Use these worksheets to get your students composing their own melodies, accompaniments, and rhythm patterns! These worksheets are designed to help guide students, from lower elementary through middle and even high school, through the process of composing. Rhythm and pitch banks, clear, big staves and notation, simple directions, and clearly defined parameters make composition more accessible for students of all ages.
Sally’s Sea of Songs – Safari Rhythm Write the Room Bundle
Make rhythm reading active and fun! This 3-in-1 Safari-themed bundle helps students practice and recognize rhythm patterns in duple meter through write-the-room games, aural skills, and rhythm composition.
✅ Great for centers, whole group, or assessments
✅ Focus on quarter notes, eighth notes, rests, 16th notes & combos
✅ Includes slides, pattern cards, worksheets & low-color versions
Perfect for rhythm review and movement-based learning!
Sally’s Sea of Songs – Pirate Rhythms – Read & Write Basic Rhythms (3 Levels)
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Ahoy, rhythm readers! This interactive Google Slides resource builds fluency with 4-beat rhythm patterns using fun pirate-themed words. Students read, practice, and compose rhythms step-by-step — perfect for whole group, centers, or differentiation.
✅ 3 levels of rhythm reading (including 16th notes)
✅ Drag-and-drop composition grids
✅ Works with any rhythm syllable system
✅ Includes printable worksheets to extend learning
Great for pirate-themed units or rhythm review all year!
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