Students use aural skills to dictate various rhythmic, melodic and/or rhythmic-melodic patterns performed by a teacher. Students should be encouraged to perform their transcription to analyze and compare with the teacher given “prototype”. Based on trial and error, students can reflect and revise their answers many times until they are ready to finalize their student “copy”.

Students will learn the basics of rhythmic literacy by correlating the number of syllables in a word to a rhythmic value. Students will select their favorite food that has toppings (pizza, ice cream sundae, cake, cookie, or sandwich) and create rhythmic patterns using words with varying numbers of syllables.