Standard Mastery Guide
TEKS Alignment Master Texas Music Standards
Standard Mastery Guide (Part 1)
Essential Questions & Success Criteria • Elementary & MS Level 2
Target
80%
Mastery Level
TEKS Music 1.1.A & 1.1.B • Vocal & Instrument Families
Elementary Level 1
State Standard Statement
"Students will identify voices and selected instruments from various musical families visually and aurally with 80% accuracy."
Essential Question
How do we recognize, describe, and group the unique sounds in our musical world?
Success Criteria (I Can Statements)
- ✓ I can distinguish between whispering, speaking, singing, and shouting voices.
- ✓ I can categorize instruments into Strings, Woodwinds, Brass, or Percussion.
- ✓ I can identify 4 key instruments visually and aurally with at least 80% accuracy.
TEKS MS 2.1.A & 2.3.A • Instruments & Treble Notation
Middle School 2
State Standard Statement
"The student will identify instruments visually and aurally with 80% accuracy. The student will read and write simple music notation."
Essential Question
How does instrument design shape its unique voice, and how do written symbols translate sound into physical actions?
Success Criteria (I Can Statements)
- ✓ I can identify woodwind, brass, string, and percussion instruments by sound and visual profile.
- ✓ I can explain how design features (reeds, slide, mouthpiece) affect an instrument's sound.
- ✓ I can read and write five core pitches correctly on the treble clef staff.
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TEKS Alignment Master Texas Music Standards
Standard Mastery Guide (Part 2)
Essential Questions & Success Criteria • MS Level 3
Target
80%
Mastery Level
TEKS MS 3.1.A & 3.1.B • World Instruments & Cultures
Middle School 3
State Standard Statement
"Students will categorize music instruments and sound from various cultures with 80% accuracy."
Essential Question
How do traditional musical instruments and ensembles tell the stories, histories, and traditions of different world cultures?
Success Criteria (I Can Statements)
- ✓ I can describe the sound characteristics (timbre) of diverse cultural instruments.
- ✓ I can correctly match traditional instruments (e.g., sitar, djembe, steel drum) to their home region.
- ✓ I can categorize five non-Western instruments with 80% accuracy based on visual and audio cues.
TEKS MS 3.3 • Rhythm & Meter Writing
Middle School 3
State Standard Statement
"Students will read and write music that incorporates basic rhythm patterns with 80% accuracy."
Essential Question
How do musicians organize time, patterns, and mathematical division to create a steady groove?
Success Criteria (I Can Statements)
- ✓ I can write and read note values for quarter notes, eighth notes, half notes, and corresponding rests.
- ✓ I can prove a measure has exactly four beats in 4/4 time through note division mathematics.
- ✓ I can write a rhythm pattern of 4 measures incorporating diverse rhythms with 80% metric accuracy.
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