Elicit non-trivial dialogue from students. Guide students to reflection and analysis of the experience. Encourage students to share their perceptions and beliefs. Summarize and review similarities and differences.

Teacher-led discussion

Objective: To enable children to connect pitch changes in the teacher's voice to written notation and to see that musical notation is a written form of a special language.

Activity: Teacher-led discussion focusing on musical notation experience. Can they see differences in the written notes on the staff? How did the notation on the cards cause the teacher's voice to change? Can the children describe the pitch changes?

Assessment: Teacher evaluation of student discussion.