Kindergarten

• Use a simple vocabulary of music terms to describe sounds
• Know that music can be written and read
• Read and write basic rhythms in notation

Grades 1-2

• Understand that notation can represent melodic direction and duration
• Read and write more complex rhythms

Grades 3-4

• Read and notate "the beat", its subdivisions and longer note values of rhythm
• Read and notate the pitches from "a" below "middle c" to "a" above the G-clef
• Read and write still more complex rhythms
• Read and write simple melodies

• Read notation appropriate to the range and technical requirements of an instrument studied

Grades 5-8

• Use standard notation as a guide to singing or playing classroom instruments
• Sing or play simple melodies in treble or bass clef on sight
• Employ traditional notation as a means of retaining musical ideas
• Identify by name and function standard notational symbols for pitch, rhythm, articulation, and dynamics
• Recognize similar and contrasting ideas when presented in musical notation
• Read one's own part in 2-, 3- and 4-part music
• Employ an appropriate system to learn on one's own new rhythms containing eighth notes or longer values
• Employ an appropriate system to learn on one's own usual sixteenth note patterns
• Notate "by ear" (after hearing) simple rhythms and diatonic melodies
• Follow one line of music which is part of a choral "system" or part of a full score that is written on a single staff

• Read more complex notation appropriate to the range and technical requirements of an instrument studied

Grades 9-12

• Demonstrate through playing, singing or writing a knowledge of pitch and rhythm symbols and musical terminology
• Sight-read or sight-sing simple music with consistency
• Identify duple, triple, compound and irregular meters and perform by subdividing
• Read music written in treble-, bass-, tenor- and viola-clef
• While listening to the performance of a piece, follow the music in a full score

• Read more complex notation appropriate to the range and technical requirements of an instrument studied