Your PDF download is designed to be really versatile and cut down on printing!
Page 1: Has space to dictate 3 different songs: “Chicken in the Fencepost”, “Dance Again”, and “Who's That Tapping at the Window”.
Page 2: Answer Sheet
Page 3: A template page that can be used for 3 songs of your choice. Students can dictate the rhythm and then see if they recognise the song, or you can tell them the name of the song to write in. (Don’t worry – it still has cute graphics on it!)
Page 4: Chicken in the Fencepost dictation sheets x3 – if this is the only song you want to do, just print this page – this will minimise your printing!
Page 5: Dance Again rhythmic dictation sheets x3
Page 6: Who's That Tapping at the Window rhythmic dictation sheets x3
Suggested approach:
It’s helpful for our students to work with a rhythm many times using known songs before moving to unknown songs. Depending on how comfortable your class is with “tika-tika” you can choose a known or an unknown song for this dictation activity.
1) Prepare for the activity by singing a DIFFERENT tika-tika song with words, then rhythm names, then sing the word again while tapping the rhythm.
2) Sing the song you have chosen for your dictation with lyrics only.
3) The teacher claps the rhythm of line 1.
4) Students silently tap the rhythm on their knee or on the worksheet itself and try to think of the rhythm names.
5) Students write down the first line.
6) Repeat steps 3-5 for lines 2-4.
7) Teacher claps the whole song while students check their work.
8) Collect worksheet for marking or mark as a class.
9) Sing the song again with the lyrics.
Audio files are included on this web page for the melody of the songs.