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Guess the Lyrics – Music Word Game Activity

Students recall missing words in song and television-theme excerpts, then compare their choices with the completed versions.
Grades
Grades 5–8, Elementary, Middle School
Pages
2
File type
Microsoft Word
Answer key
Included

Updated Oct 03, 2021

Subject
Creative Arts, Music
Topic
Song Lyrics, Music Game
Resource types
Activities, Games
Answer key
Included

Product description

From the author

Guess some of the words in each lyric line!

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Students use context and phonetic/rhythmic cues to recall or infer missing words in familiar song lyrics.

Teaching tips

  • Play or hum each song's melody as a cue before students fill in the blank, since the activity is built around recognition by ear as much as by reading.

  • Use this as a warm-up, brain-break, or getting-to-know-you activity rather than a graded assignment, since the content spans early-childhood TV themes through pop songs rather than one academic topic.

Skills covered

  • Recalling familiar song words
  • Using context to complete a phrase

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Is an answer page included?

Yes. The matching page supplies the missing words for all twenty excerpts.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Lyric recall

  • Media/pop-culture familiarity

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