Grade 3 Fine Arts Washington Standards

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge, and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.

Improvise rhythmic and melodic ideas, and describe connection to specific purpose and context (such as personal and social).

Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms and melodies) within a given tonality and/or meter.

Demonstrate selected musical ideas for a simple improvisation or composition to express intent, and describe connection to a specific purpose and context.

Use standard and/or iconic notation and/or recording technology to document personal rhythmic and melodic musical ideas.

Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal musical ideas, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback.

Present the final version of personal created music to others, and describe connection to expressive intent.

Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, purpose, and context.

Demonstrate understanding of the structure in music selected for performance.

When analyzing selected music, read and perform rhythmic patterns and melodic phrases using iconic and standard notation.

Describe how context (such as personal and social) can inform a performance.

Demonstrate and describe how intent is conveyed through expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo).

Apply teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback to evaluate accuracy of ensemble performances.

Rehearse to refine technical accuracy, expressive qualities, and identified performance challenges.

Perform music with expression and technical accuracy.

Demonstrate performance decorum and audience etiquette appropriate for the context and venue.

Demonstrate and describe how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, or purposes.

Demonstrate and describe how a response to music can be informed by the structure, the use of the elements of music, and context (such as personal and social).

Demonstrate and describe how the expressive qualities (such as dynamics and tempo) are used in performers’ interpretations to reflect expressive intent.

Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and describe appropriateness to the context.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Develop and re fine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Refine and complete artistic work.

C O N N E C T I N G

P E R F O R M I N G

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

R E S P O N D I N G

C R E A T I N G

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural , and historical context to deepen understanding.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.

Generate melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for simple melodies (such as two-phrase) and chordal accompaniments for given melodies.

Select, develop, and use standard notation or audio/video recording to document melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic ideas for drafts of simple melodies (such as two-phrase) and chordal accompaniments for given melodies.

Apply teacher-provided criteria to critique, improve, and refine drafts of simple melodies (such as two-phrase) and chordal accompaniments for given melodies.

Share final versions of simple melodies (such as two-phrase) and chordal accompaniments for given melodies, demonstrating an understanding of how to develop and organize personal musical ideas.

Describe and demonstrate how a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments is selected, based on personal interest, music reading skills, and technical skill, as well as the context of the performances.

Identify prominent melodic and harmonic characteristics in a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments selected for performance, including at least some based on reading standard notation.

Demonstrate and describe in interpretations an understanding of the context and expressive intent in a varied repertoire of music selected for performance that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments.

Apply teacher-provided criteria to critique individual performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments selected for performance, and apply practice strategies to address performance challenges and refine the performances.

Perform with expression and technical accuracy in individual performances of a varied repertoire of music that includes melodies, repertoire pieces, and chordal accompaniments, demonstrating understanding of the audience and the context.

Demonstrate and describe reasons for selecting music, based on characteristics found in the music and connections to interest, purpose, or personal experience.

Demonstrate and explain, citing evidence, the use of repetition, similarities, and contrasts in musical selections and how these and knowledge of the context (social or cultural) inform the response.

Identify interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical selections, referring to the elements of music, context (personal or social), and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.

Identify and describe how interest, experiences, and contexts (personal or social) affect the evaluation of music.

C O N N E C T I N G

Refine and complete artistic work.

Develop and re fine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Refine and complete artistic work.

C R E A T I N G

P E R F O R M I N G

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural , and historical context to deepen understanding.

R E S P O N D I N G

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Demonstrate how interests, knowledge and skills relate to personal choices and intent when creating, performing, and responding to music.

Demonstrate understanding of relationships between music and the other arts, other disciplines, varied contexts, and daily life.

Compose and improvise melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives that reflect characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.

Select and develop draft melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives that demonstrate understanding of characteristic(s) of music or text(s) studied in rehearsal.

Preserve draft compositions and improvisations through standard notation and audio recording.

Evaluate and refine draft compositions and improvisations based on knowledge, skill, and teacher-provided criteria.

Share personally-developed melodic and rhythmic ideas or motives—individually or as an ensemble—that demonstrate understanding of characteristics of music or texts studied in rehearsal.

Select varied repertoire to study based on interest, music reading skills (where appropriate), an understanding of the structure of the music, context, and the technical skill of the individual or ensemble.

Demonstrate, using music reading skills where appropriate, how knowledge of formal aspects in musical works inform prepared or improvised performances.

Identify expressive qualities in a varied repertoire of music that can be demonstrated through prepared and improvised performances.

Use self-reflection and peer feedback to refine individual and ensemble performances of a varied repertoire of music.

Demonstrate attention to technical accuracy and expressive qualities in prepared and improvised performances of a varied repertoire of music.

Demonstrate an awareness of the context of the music through prepared and improvised performances.

Identify reasons for selecting music based on characteristics found in the music, connection to interest, and purpose or context.

Identify how knowledge of context and the use of repetition, similarities, and contrasts inform the response to music.

Identify interpretations of the expressive intent and meaning of musical works, referring to the elements of music, contexts, and (when appropriate) the setting of the text.

Identify and describe the effect of interest, experience, analysis, and context on the evaluation of music.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

C O N N E C T I N G

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural , and historical context to deepen understanding.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

P E R F O R M I N G

Refine and complete artistic work.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

R E S P O N D I N G

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

C R E A T I N G

Refine and complete artistic work.

Develop and re fine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Develop and re fine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

C R E A T I N G

C O N N E C T I N G

Relate artistic ideas and works with societal, cultural, and historical context to deepen understanding.

Refine and complete artistic work.

R E S P O N D I N G

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work .

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

P R E S E N T I N G

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

Develop a work of art based on observations of surroundings.

Recognize that responses to art change depending on knowledge of the time and place in which it was made.

Elaborate on an imaginative idea.

Apply knowledge of available resources, tools, and technologies to investigate personal ideas through the artmaking process.

Create personally satisfying artwork, using a variety of artistic processes and materials.

Demonstrate an understanding of the safe and proficient use of materials, tools, and equipment for a variety of artistic processes.

Individually or collaboratively construct representations, diagrams, or maps of places that are part of everyday life.

Elaborate visual information by adding details in an artwork to enhance emerging meaning.

Investigate and discuss possibilities and limitations of spaces, including electronic, for exhibiting artwork.

Identify exhibit space and prepare works of art including artists’ statements, for presentation.

Identify and explain how and where different cultures record and illustrate stories and history of life through art.

Speculate about processes an artist uses to create a work of art.

Determine messages communicated by an image.

Interpret art by analyzing use of media to create subject matter, characteristics of form, and mood.

Evaluate an artwork based on given criteria.