This nine-week unit builds music literacy skills and supports connections to outside content. It is intended to co-exist with the secondary choral classroom and strengthen music literacy skills. Students will engage in small groups to collaboratively write a song together. Students will use melodic, harmonic, and aural skills to identify chord progressions, hear and sing melody lines over chord progressions, write  lyrics, and sing together in unison and harmony. Students may also use accompanying instruments during this project.

This plan identifies six key elements of musicality for singers. Students will apply each principle to their current choral repertoire to improve and develop musicality.

In this video, a Virginia music educator shares three coral warm-ups highlighting Standard 13 in the Technique and Application strand of the 2020 Music Standards. These warm-ups provide a foundation of aural skills that can built upon later in the lesson, and throughout the year in songwriting and connections to essential skills necessary for success in music.