Grade 5 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, melodic, and harmonic ideas, and explain connection to specific purpose and context (such as social, cultural, and historical).

Generate musical ideas (such as rhythms, melodies, and accompaniment patterns) within specific related tonalities, meters, and simple chord changes.

Demonstrate selected and developed musical ideas for improvisations, arrangements, or compositions to express intent, and explain connection to purpose and context.

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

Evaluate, refine, and document revisions to personal music, applying teacher-provided and collaboratively-developed criteria and feedback, and explain rationale for changes.

Present to others the final version of personal created music that demonstrates craftsmanship, and explain connection to expressive intent.

Demonstrate and explain how the selection of music to perform is influenced by personal interest, knowledge, and context, as well as their personal and others’ technical skill.

Demonstrate understanding of the structure and the elements of music (such as rhythm, pitch, form, and harmony) in music selected for performance.

When analyzing selected music, read and perform using standard notation.

Explain how context (such as social, cultural, and historical) informs performances.

Demonstrate and explain how intent is conveyed through interpretive decisions and expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, timbre, and articulation/style).

Apply teacher-provided and established criteria and feedback to evaluate the accuracy and expressiveness of ensemble and personal performances.

Rehearse to refine technical accuracy and expressive qualities to address challenges, and show improvement over time.

Perform music, alone or with others, with expression, technical accuracy, and appropriate interpretation.

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

Demonstrate and explain, citing evidence, how selected music connects to and is influenced by specific interests, experiences, purposes, or contexts.

Demonstrate and explain, citing evidence, how responses to music are informed by the structure, the use of the elements of music, and context (such as social, cultural, and historical).

Demonstrate and explain how the expressive qualities (such as dynamics, tempo, timbre, and articulation) are used in performers’ and personal interpretations to reflect expressive intent.

Evaluate musical works and performances, applying established criteria, and explain appropriateness to the context, citing evidence from the elements of music.

C R E A T I N G

Refine and complete artistic work.

Select, analyze, and interpret artistic work for presentation.

R E S P O N D I N G

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Develop and re fine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.

P E R F O R M I N G

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

C O N N E C T I N G

Perceive and analyze 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.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

Refine and complete artistic work.

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and 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.

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.

Convey meaning through the presentation of artistic work.

C O N N E C T I N G

Refine and complete artistic work.

Apply criteria to evaluate artistic work.

Synthesize and relate knowledge and personal experiences to make art.

R E S P O N D I N G

Interpret intent and meaning in artistic work.

Perceive and analyze artistic work.

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

C R E A T I N G

Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work.

Select, analyze and interpret artistic work for presentation.

Organize and develop artistic ideas and work .

P R E S E N T I N G

Develop and re fine artistic techniques and work for presentation.

Apply formal and conceptual vocabularies of art and design to view surroundings in new ways through art-making.

Identify how art is used to inform or change beliefs, values, or behaviors of an individual or society.

Combine ideas to generate an innovative idea for art-making.

Identify and demonstrate diverse methods of artistic investigation to choose an approach for beginning a work of art.

Experiment and develop skills in multiple art-making techniques and approaches through practice.

Demonstrate quality craftsmanship through care for and use of materials, tools, and equipment.

Identify, describe, and visually document places and/or objects of personal significance.

Create artist statements using art vocabulary to describe personal choices in art-making.

Define the roles and responsibilities of a curator, explaining the skills and knowledge needed in preserving, maintaining, and presenting objects, artifacts, and artwork.

Develop a logical argument for safe and effective use of materials and techniques for preparing and presenting artwork.

Cite evidence about how an exhibition in a museum or other venue presents ideas and provides information about a specific concept or topic.

Compare one's own interpretation of a work of art with the interpretation of others.

Identify and analyze cultural associations suggested by visual imagery.

Interpret art by analyzing characteristics of form and structure, contextual information, subject matter, visual elements, and use of media to identify ideas and mood conveyed.

Recognize differences in criteria used to evaluate works of art depending on styles, genres, and media as well as historical and cultural contexts.