Common Planner
Sign InCreate My Free Account!
Sign InCreate My Free Account!
K–12 Standards

Music: Grade 3

Other Maine Visual and Performing Arts sets

Listen to, apply criteria, and interpret the artist’s intended meaning.A1

  • a

    Discuss, compare, and contrast diverse music experiences.B.3.A1.a

Interpret and express music through movement.A2

  • a

    Compare and contrast the elements of music through movement.B.3.A2.a

Connect with a variety of musical experiences through relationships between music and personal understandings.B1

  • a

    Explore how personal interests and skills relate to choices when experiencing music.B.3.B1.a

Connect with a variety of musical experiences through the relations between music, the other arts, and other disciplines.B2

  • a

    With guidance, discuss relationships between music and another art or discipline outside the arts.B.3.B2.a

Connect with a variety of musical experiences through the relationships between music, history, and culture.B3

  • a

    Explore and discuss characteristics of music from a variety of societal, cultural, and historical contexts.B.3.B3.a

Perform a rich and diverse repertoire of music.C1

  • a

    Sing in head voice with increasing pitch accuracy using proper posture.B.3.C1.a

  • b

    Perform songs on a variety of classroom instruments with appropriate technique, and in various tonalities and meters.B.3.C1.b

  • c

    Explore and perform music in basic forms with increasing technical accuracy at a consistent tempo.B.3.C1.c

Apply criteria and feedback to rehearse and re-create musical experiences.C2

  • a

    Demonstrate short songs alone or with others, in forma and/or informal settings. With guidance, reflect on performances and apply feedback.B.3.C2.a

Audiate and communicate musical ideas.D1

  • a

    Demonstrate the ability to audiate with increasing accuracy by recreating familiar musical ideas alone.B.3.D1.a

Read and communicate musical ideas using terms and symbols.D2

  • a

    With guidance, echo and decode, with increasing accuracy, a variety of tonal and rhythmic patterns and songs performed instrumentally and/or vocally.B.3.D2.a

  • b

    Discuss and describe expressive qualities of music using applicable descriptors.B.3.D2.b

Generate and conceptualize musical ideas.E1

  • a

    Improvise/create melodic and rhythmic phrases to express a musical idea.B.3.E1.a

Organize and develop musical ideas to achieve a creative goal.E2

  • a

    With guidance, plan and create rhythmic and melodic patterns through multiple pathways.B.3.E2.a

Refine and complete music work.E3

  • a

    With guidance, identify ways to use feedback toward musical ideas.B.3.E3.a

Identify positive inter- and intra-personal skills that impact the quality of a musician’s art and participation in the arts.F1

  • a

    Demonstrate active participation and communication skills in group music making (e.g., basic problem solving, compromise, inclusion, personal responsibility, etc.)B.3.F1.a

Make technical and expressive adjustments to meet the goals of the performing group.F2

  • a

    With guidance apply simple visual and auditory cues from others.B.3.F2.a

Frequently asked questions

What grade levels do these standards cover?
Grade 3

Find this useful?

If so, you'll love the standards search built into Common Planner.

Keep exploring

Keep exploring Visual and Performing Arts standards

Sibling grade bands, other subjects in this jurisdiction, and the same subject across other states.

More Maine Visual and Performing Arts sets

Visual and Performing Arts

Visual and Performing Arts in other jurisdictions

Visual and Performing Arts