Sounds like Music 6-pack Author: David Chadwick ISBN: 9780790308012 Copyright Date: 2004 Lesson Plan Blackline Master Grade Level: 4 Reading Level: T Strategy/Skill: Cause and effect, Comparing and contrasting, Using graphic sources Genre: Explanation Theme/Topic: Art and Activity, Invention Classification: Nonfiction

Book Summary

A large orchestra can have up to a hundred musicians and around twenty different kinds of instruments.  Each of these instruments makes its own unique sound.  This book examines how instruments and musicians make music and explores the science of sound.

Features of the Book

• Comparisons
• Labeled diagram
• Cause and effect
• Use of second-person and third-person voice

Purpose

Sounds like Music can be used to introduce and reinforce the following skills and understandings:

• synthesizing information
• sequencing steps in a process
• classifying information
• understanding the science of sound

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