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Lesson 3: Red Riding Hood

Children use their understanding of timbre, tempo and dynamics to tell the familiar story of Red Riding Hood.

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Before the lesson

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Learning objective

  • To select appropriate sounds to match events, characters and feelings in a story

National curriculum

‘Pupils should be taught to:

  •  experiment with, create, select and combine sounds using the inter-related dimensions
    of music’

See National curriculum - Music key stages 1 to 2

Success criteria

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Attention grabber

Main event

Differentiation

Pupils needing extra support: May benefit from discussing with the group or an adult, their character and how they would feel at each part of the story.

 

Pupils working at greater depth: Can be challenged to capture greater detail from the story in their music.

Wrapping up

Assessing pupils' progress and understanding

Vocabulary

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