Music for 3rd grade
Music for 3rd grade: 9 free pages to print, play or teach from. No sign-in.
- Specials schedulePrintable
A free printable specials schedule: a weekly grid with a write-in line for each day's special, the time, the room and a reminder. Edit the days and print.
- Music education: Orff, Kodály, Suzuki and DalcrozeGuide
Orff, Kodály, Suzuki and Dalcroze in plain words: where each came from, what a lesson looks like, how they differ, the National Core Arts Standards, and what the evidence says.
Checked 2026-11-06
- 25 transition songs and attention signalsIdea
Twenty-five original call-and-response lines, hand and sound signals, short songs to familiar public-domain tunes and visual cues for transitions, each with when to use it and the grades it fits.
- 14 music sub plans for subs who don't read musicIdea
Fourteen music sub plans for non-music teachers, K–8: clapping games, listening lessons and simple songs that need no instruments and no music reading.
- Keeping the Beat: 3rd grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about beat and rhythm in music for 3rd grade, 163 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Music performance rubricPrintable
A free music performance rubric in three grade bands (K–2, 3–5, 6–8) for singing or playing: beat, notes and rhythm, expression, ensemble and practice effort.
Checked 2026-10-30
- Music from an Oil Barrel: 3rd grade reading passage with questionsReading
A nonfiction passage about steel pan drums for 3rd grade, 145 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Dad's Parking Lot Song: 3rd grade reading passage with questionsReading
A fiction passage about a dad who sings loudly at school pickup for 3rd grade, 216 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.
- Tobias and the Giant Tuba Case: 3rd grade reading passage with questionsReading
A fiction passage about carrying a big instrument for 3rd grade, 165 words, with six comprehension questions, an answer key and vocabulary. Print it or read it big.