Voice Teachers!

This resource includes a reproducible license for personal

and classroom use.
 Teacher tips!
Sight Singing Is Super Fun!
Ok, Learning to read music takes time and effort - but when you break it
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down into small simple activities, include visual play-based music
games and cheer your students to victory - it can be a fun time! And
your young singers will become sight singing superheros in no time!

Start with the basic skills training

1. Tonic Sol-fa Do - MI
Confident singing
Tonic sol-fa is a method that allows singers to sing unaccompanied and 2. Tonic Sol-fa DO - SO
quickly build their confidence. Start with simple warm ups using the
3.Tonic Sol-fa DO- DO’
tonic sol-fa scale and let them sing without piano accompianment.
Encourage your singers to sing scales, triads and arpeggios without 4. Tonic Sol-fa Triads
singing or playing the notes with them. 5. Rhythm Reading - Notes
Rhythm Reading
6. Singing & Counting Rhythms
Superhero singers can learn the note values and practice simple rhythms
by clapping and counting aloud. Encourage your singers to keep a slow 7. Rhythm Reading Rests
and steady tempo. 8. Time Signatures
Notes on the Staff
9. Eighth Notes
Just like piano students, our super singers need to be able to read notes
on the music staff. This resource includes mini note flashcards to make 10. Rhythm Reading Drills
learning notes fun. Writing activities help too!
11. Music Staff & Treble Clef
Interval Study
12. Notes on the lines/spaces
Young singers can use scales, triads and arpeggios to hear and sing
simple intervals. They don’t know it yet - but they have supersonic 13. Singing Major Scales
listening skills already!
14. Sight Singing
Putting in all together
15. 2 bar drills (DO-MI)
Once future superheros have developed strong music skills, simple two
bar sight singing drills can help to put all the skills together. Encourage 16. 2 Bar drills (DO-SO)
singers to keep a super slow tempo and try drills more than once! 17. 2 bar drills (DO-LA)

18. Two bar drills (DO-DO’)

19. Flashcards
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the staff lines make a sentence
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Identify the line notes.

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Super hero tip: Want to be SUPER FAST at naming the notes on the staff?
Use the note naming FLASH CARDS and become a note naming hero!
C Major sight singing drills -
1. � Look at each example carefully and answer the questions aloud.
2. ��Clap and count the rhythms.
3. � Sight sing the melodies slowly.

i) how many beats is this note held for?

a)

ii) What kind of rest is this?

i) What is the starting note?_____

b)

ii) What is the ending note?

iii) How many beats is this note held for?

4. ��Sight sing the following melodies slowly.

a) � b) �

c) � d) �

e) � f) �

g) � h) �

i) � j) �