Blended Learning Lesson Plan

Lesson Title:
Sight Reading

Objectives
- Students will be able to perform at sight simple unfamiliar musical works with accurate
pitches and rhythms at a steady tempo
- Students will identify advanced key signatures in the clef appropriate to their instrument
- Students will perform simple rhythm patterns using music notation
State Standards:
- Anchor Standard 5:
- I can perform using musical notation
Context:

This lesson will be for a high school band class. The reasoning for teaching this lesson is because
many students are not able to sight read music at a advanced level
Data:
The students will be divided into sections, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. This is so each
students will have knowledge of each other's instruments so they will be able to help each other
if need be.
Materials:

Introduction:
- Instruments
- https://www.sightreadingfactory.com/ from the teacher
- Smartboard and teachers computer

Teacher Directed:
- Instruments
- https://www.sightreadingfactory.com/
- Smart board and teachers computer

Collaborative:
- Musescore 4 program
- Student devices
- Instruments

Independent Digital:
- Instruments
 - https://www.sightreadingfactory.com/
- Metronome app
- Student Devices
- Headphones

Closure:
- Music that I will hand out
- Their instruments

Procedures:

Introduction (15 minutes):

The introduction will include all the students coming to sit in front of the room and we
will run through warmups together. After finishing warm ups I will show them how to work the
sight reading factory website and what to do. I will explain here what they will be doing in each
station and how to go about doing this. I will have shown them how to use musescore in the past.

Teacher Directed (15 minutes):

The teacher directed portion of this will be having students sit around the smart board while I use
sightreadingfactory to pull up sight reading examples and having students do their sight reading
in front of me. I will then be able to give them immediate feedback. We will do multiple
examples until our time runs out.

Collaborative (15 minutes):

The collaborative portion will be the students getting in groups of two and using musescore to
write out a small 4 measure excerpt for their partner to sight read. They will both get 3 minutes
to write them out then give the other their device and then they will have to sight read it. Repeat
this process as much as time allows.

Independent Digital (15 minutes):

The independent digital portion will be students will put on headphones and turn on a
metronome using an application of their choosing and find examples to sight read on
sightreadingfactory. They will then play it back after sight reading it and try to mimic this until
they get it right. Once they get it right they will move on to another randomized example.

Closure (20 minutes):

I will finish out this lesson by handing out a piece of music that the students have never seen
before and give them 5 minutes to look it over and direct each section to spots they will want to
pay attention to. I will have a timer going so the students know how long it will be. I then will
have them play the piece from the top to the bottom unless it falls apart. After this I will then tell
them how they did and explain why it was important for them to learn sightreading.