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Lesson 3: Composing pentatonic melodies

Working together, making musical choices to create tunes that tell a story.
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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

1. Recap and recall

This activity revisits learning from Lesson 2: Pentatonic melodies to help the children recall key vocabulary.

Show the Presentation: Spot the scale. Play each audio. Ask the children to listen, look at the images and decide which shows the pentatonic scale. Click to show the correct answer (C).

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