Myths about teaching can hold you back
- Year 1
- Year 1
Strong and soft singing
I can control my loud singing voice and my soft singing voice.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Warming up our voice helps us to sing safely.
- Singing loudly doesn't mean shouting.
- We can use many different dynamics when we sing.
- Different songs can suit different dynamics.
Keywords
Dynamics - how loudly or quietly the music is played or sung
Singing - creating musical sounds with our voice that can be a mixture of high sounds and low sounds
Song - music with words
Common misconception
We need to sing loudly for it to be heard or for it to be 'good'.
Learning to sing using a range of dynamics is a key aspect of conveying the mood of a song. Pupils can explore what quality singing feels like, and the effect it can have, using a range of dynamics to suit the song.
To help you plan your year 1 music lesson on: Strong and soft singing, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 1 music lesson on: Strong and soft singing, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
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The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom. Plus, you can set it as homework or revision for pupils and keep their learning on track by sharing an online pupil version of this lesson.
Explore more key stage 1 music lessons from the Singing together: how singing makes me feel unit, dive into the full primary music curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Sometimes we sing songs. Sometimes we speak in time to the music. This is called a ...
Q2.When we hear a sung call and copy it exactly, this is called an ...
Q3.True or false? Really loud singing is better because it shows our teacher we know the song really well.
Q4.We feel the and this helps us sing in time together.
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.Before singing, we should __________ our voices.
Q2.When we change from soft singing to strong singing, we are changing our ...
