Summary
This video segment from Between the Lions features an animated poem about tuning instruments. Various instruments are introduced by their sounds and by how they are played. A young girl plays some of them. The words of the poem are displayed with the animation. Featured vocabulary includes: concert, tuba, bassoon, violin, cymbal, trumpet, flutist, flutes, drummer, drums, cello, and baton.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
"Poem: Tuning Up" is all about listening for the sounds inside words — rhyming, blending, or breaking words into parts (focus: Tuning Up).
- What sounds, rhymes, or word parts did you hear?
- How were the sounds put together or pulled apart?
- Can you make another word that plays with those same sounds?
Quick work-a-long
Practice: sound, rhyme, word part.
Try it: Pick a short word, say each sound slowly, then blend it back together — and think of one word that rhymes with it.