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Step-by-step scaffold for music analysis

Helps students build from basic identification to evaluative commentary with visual sentence stems

This colourful and structured Music Analysis Sentence Builder supports students in developing confidence and accuracy when describing music using musical vocabulary. The resource scaffolds responses in six progressive steps, helping learners move from simple identification (e.g. ‘I hear pianos’) to more sophisticated analysis with significance (e.g. ‘This creates the feeling of a clock ticking’).

Perfect for KS3 and early KS4, the visual layout encourages students to add detail incrementally through guided sentence stems.

Each stage includes:

1. Identify - Naming the instrument/sound
2. Adjective - Adding descriptive language
3. Correct musical term - Using subject-specific terminology
4. Describe - Naming what the instrument is doing
5. More detail - Adding specifics such as rhythm, pitch, articulation
6. Significance - Explaining the effect or intended meaning behind the sound

This resource can be used during listening tasks, music coursework or as a visual wall display in the classroom.