Writing a Song Lesson Plan

Teacher: Ms. Jackson Level: 3rd & 4th Grade

Activity 1: Figure the Lyrics

1. T: “what’s on your heart today?”
2. Ss raise their hands to give ideas. T writes ideas on the board.
3. T and Ss decide which 3 are the most important.
4. T: “Tell me about your experiences with ______________
5. T writes down phrases that could be used as song lyrics.

Activity 2: Creating the Song

Harmony
1. T: “who wants to be the singers, and who wants to be our rhythm section?”
2. T: “we need to create a pattern that we can play over and over again.
3. T: “what is the mood of our song? Fast or Slow? What instruments?”
4. T: “we need one or two people to be the steady beat on something?”
5. T: “what chords do we know?” C, F, Am!
6. Once they have something keep playing it over and over as singers work on the lyrics.
Melody
7. T: “Do you see an important phrase for our topic here?” T speaks it with a rhythm. Ss
echo.
8. Write down the phrases they decide are important.
9. T says them all rhythmic, Ss echo.
10. When you hear a melody for these phrase go ahead start singing it.
11. T: “does anybody want to freestyle?”
12. Arrange the lyrics into a song, (intro, verse, refrain, coda)

Activity: Perform!!
1. Record a couple times.
2. Write it down to remember it.