Help your elementary music students build strong music literacy skills with this comprehensive, no-prep worksheet packet!
Let’s Learn the Music Symbols is a structured and engaging resource designed to introduce and reinforce essential music theory concepts, including clefs, notes, rests, accidentals, bar lines, repeat signs, and time signatures.
Perfect for whole-class instruction, music centers, independent work, early finishers, or sub plans.
Concepts Covered
Students will practice identifying, tracing, naming, coloring, matching, cutting & gluing, and drawing:
ā Treble Clef (G Clef)
ā Bass Clef (F Clef)
ā Alto Clef (C Clef)
ā Whole, Half, Quarter & Eighth Notes
ā Whole, Half, Quarter & Eighth Rests
ā Flat, Sharp & Natural Signs
ā Bar Line & Double Bar Line
ā Repeat Sign
ā Time Signature
ā General Music Symbol Review
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What's Included:
There are 50 PDF pages, with keys for each page.
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will:
• Strengthen music symbol recognition
• Understand note and rest values
• Identify clefs and their placement on the staff
• Recognize accidentals and their meanings
• Practice reading and writing music symbols
• Improve fine motor skills through tracing and coloring
• Build confidence in music theory fundamentals
This resource moves from introduction → guided practice → revision → review.
Teacher Benefits
ā No prep — print and go
ā Structured progression of skills
ā Includes revision pages for reinforcement
ā Great for music centers or sub plans
ā Supports music literacy development
ā Easy to differentiate
ā Works for classroom or homeschool settings
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Grade Levels: 1st – 4th Grade General Music (Also appropriate for beginner music students of any age).
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Standards: National Core Arts Standards – General Music
Creating
MU:Cr1.1 – Generate and explore musical ideas using rhythm and notation
MU:Cr2.1 – Organize and develop musical ideas using standard music symbols
Performing
MU:Pr4.2 – Demonstrate understanding of music notation when reading and performing
MU:Pr4.3 – Interpret musical symbols and expressive elements in performance
Responding
MU:Re7.2 – Identify and describe elements of music including notes, rests, clefs, and accidentals
MU:Re8.1 – Demonstrate knowledge of music symbols and their function in written music
Connecting
MU:Cn10.0 – Relate music notation to performance and music literacy development.