Practice Activities for GCSE Melodic and Rhythmic Dictation
Prepare students for the challenge of melodic and rhythmic dictation questions with 30 GCSE exam-style practice questions. Uses original, engaging pieces of music to develop essential aural skills and cater for all boards.
Includes:- tips for improving melodic and rhythmic dictation skills
- ready-to-use exercises with accompanying audio files
- answers for every exercise – great for peer-/self-assessment and easy marking
Differentiated!The layout and design of the resource is excellent... easy to use and engaging for students
Activities are signposted throughout to support weaker and stronger learners
[The exercises] offer very good practice in listening and dictation
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Invaluable for delivering a new syllabus to a mixed ability group... It has a wide range of different styles of tasks which will engage my pupils... There is plenty of resource material...Very good value... Saves a lot of time in not having to prepare them yourself... More of the same please!
Really useful indeed. I like the fact that it contains examples of both melodic and rhythmic dictation activities for students and that the difficulty seems to increase as the resource goes on, encouraging students to increase their understanding, at the same time as their confidence. It has been really useful to have one resource that contains a mixture of lots of questions rather than having to keep going back to different exam papers to use as examples! I have noticed a real improvement in the standard of answers from my students as this resource provides a straightforward way in which to attempt them and encourages them to build their confidence in an area that for some of them in particular, is really hard... It helps me as I haven't had to keep looking for examples in other resources i have and in past exam questions - it is a resource that is all in one place, with recordings and is an activity that I can set as a starter activity to settle the class down or as a homework task to encourage students to build on their confidence... Students have really enjoyed the variety of tasks and it has really encouraged me to stretch and challenge them in this area.... A ready made resource to encourage students to build on their dictation skills.
This resource is well written and nicely presented. It was exactly what I was looking for... It provides exactly what I needed, without me having to spend hours making it myself... Musical dictation is always something which many students struggle with. There are numerous activities, which are all in the same style, which can be used for regular and quick practice, such as starter activities... The style is clean, consistent and usable... You could make this yourself, but it would take a very long time... I like how it arrived as loose-leaf in a folder, which made it easy to photocopy for my students.
This will prove to be a valuable resource for GCSE music students in developing their overall musicianship skills in order to effectively dictate music onto the stave. Not only does this resource provide an abundance of dictation exercises (with accompanying audio CD) but also provides excellent guidance to candidates in how to prepare effectively for these questions through enhancing their understanding of key melodic and rhythmic features such as intervals, scalic patterns, arpeggios and broken chords, as well as dotted and syncopated rhythms, triplets and duplets... The layout and design of the resource is excellent, making it easy to use and engaging for students... I particularly like both the ‘How to Prepare’ section of this resource, with guidance and focus points for candidates... When so many marks are available for only one question, it is well worth practicing this skill as much as possible, which is exactly what this resource provides... Thank you for developing this resource!
A useful set of musical notation exercises in dictation, with questions differentiated to allow for progression throughout the course and ability of students... The exercises were well-written with different musical intervals and key signatures used to stretch students’ ability and offer very good practice in listening and dictation.
Good to have melodic dictation resources as this is often the task that students find the hardest but they are very few resources that are at the right level of difficulty once you have exhausted past papers... It builds up the skills needed to complete melodic dictation exercises gradually, introducing the concept of rhythm first and then pitch.