Music Reading
Flashcards
Music Flashcards
Take Note Music offer a fabulous selection of high quality laminated and magnetised music flashcards for ease of use by teachers in the music classroom to provide interactive music reading opportunities and sight-reading activities for students in rhythm, sol-fa and stave notation along with song pictures.
There are two types of resources which include Flashcards – Resource Kits and Flashcard Sets:
- Resource Kits – designed to be used with Student & Teacher Music Writing books, these all-inclusive kits contain resources directly related to the Take Note Music Writing Workbooks… see Music Writing. These Kits include rhythm, sol-fa and staff flashcards along with A6 song shapes, song pictures, conducting and word cards and more.
- Flashcard Sets – provide a selection of rhythm, sol-fa or stave notation for use by the teacher, not necessarily relating to known song material or the Take Note Music Writing books.
**If you use our Music Writing books, we recommend you use the Resource Kits to teach the material and then the Flashcard Sets for practising known elements and for reading unknown patterns.
- Magnetic and laminated - ready to use
- Available in rhythm, sol-fa and stave notation
- Song pictures also available in A5 size to accompany repertoire in Student Books 1 - 3
- Contents for each Kit are included on each product page
We have created two FREE activity sheets that contain practice activities and ideas for how to use our flashcards. Download them below:
Flashcard Activity Sheet No 1
Flashcard Activity Sheet No 2
Learning Benefits
The underlying purpose of music flashcards is to develop the ability to read music notation, and students love the many challenging activities for which they can be used. The ability to read music notation is best developed steadily through the reading of well-known song material, then by moving into unfamiliar material. The Take Note Music Flashcards allow for this steady development to occur by providing a wide range of patterns within the 30 in each set.
The Take Note Music Flashcards are designed to make life easy for teachers by providing opportunities for short segments of music reading within classes. They are mobile and do not require any equipment, but may be placed on a magnetic whiteboard.
Music flashcards are used held by the teacher who moves to the next card at a suitable tempo in order to challenge the class thereby providing an appropriate level of difficulty. The students love to perform, say or sing the pattern and the teacher could move more quickly ‘flashing’ the cards ahead of time, so students are reading whilst simultaneously performing the previous pattern.
Alternately, the flashcards can be placed on a magnetic whiteboard in order for students to perform a series of flashcards. Once students are familiar with the concept and are comfortable with the content, they love the challenges these flexible learning resources provide.