Description
Your students will love this engaging and interactive grand staff note reading game, music spelling bee, that reviews treble and bass clef notes across the entire range of the grand staff.
This music note reading game is a fabulous treble and bass clef notes review for your students! Plus, it’s interactive, engaging, and fun, and we all know that having fun makes learning easy and accessible!
More About the Music Spelling Bee Grand Staff Note Reading Game
This grand staff note reading game gives advancing piano students a terrific way to review the treble and bass clef notes of the grand staff, including up to 3 ledger lines above and below the staff.
Six-letter music spelling words created from the letters of the music alphabet are shown on each card: DEEDED, BEADED, and DECADE, for example.
Students figure out the word, roll the dice, and move forward on the game board. The first student to reach the beehive wins!
Use this grand staff note reading game instead of traditional music notes flash cards to drill treble and bass clef notes in an engaging way.
This game includes 15 music spelling word cards for each of the following to make this game as accessible for all of your students as possible:
- Game cards without barlines
- Game cards with black barlines
- Game cards with gray barlines
Your piano students will have tons of fun in piano lessons while becoming more confident in their ability to identify notes of the grand staff with this interactive kid-approved and teen-approved music activity.
Contents of this Grand Staff Note Reading Game
- List of the 15 music spelling words used in these games, plus definitions
- Instructions
- How to play during online piano lessons
- Game boards with and without bee cards
- Fronts and backs of bee cards (skip ahead, trade places with someone, etc.)
- Score cards for students to write their answers down (laminate for best results)
- Cards to print onto the backs of the game cards
- 3 sets of game cards
- Game cards without barlines
- Game cards with black barlines
- Game cards with gray barlines
- Blank cards that you can customize with your own spelling words
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This download includes a total of 44 pages, including fronts and backs of all game cards.
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How to Play the Music Spelling Bee Grand Staff Note Reading Game
- Print the pages you need onto white card stock and cut out the cards. Laminate if you like.
- Place the Bee Cards on the game board, and place the grand staff cards face down beside the game board.
- Roll the dice to see who goes first, or let your student go first if the two of you are playing during a private lesson.
- Draw a music spelling word card.
- The student will identify the music spelling word that is indicated by the notes on the staff.
- The student can either say the letters to figure out the word or write the word onto their score card.
- *Pro tip: Laminate the score cards or place them into a plastic page protector so they can be erased and reused throughout the game.
- The student rolls the dice and moves forward on the game board. I usually use a single die to make the game last just a little longer.
- If a student lands on a flower, the student will draw a Bee Card to see what to do (fly ahead to another flower, trade places with another player, go back one space, etc.)
- The first person to reach the beehive wins!
- Students will enjoy reviewing notes on the grand staff in a fun, hands-on way!
- They will feel very accomplished by their ability to figure out the musical spelling words as they play this engaging and interactive treble and bass clef game!
More details about this grand staff note reading game
- The cards and notes are large and clear, making them easy to use in person and online.
- This game can be mixed and matched with other musical spelling bee games to create a fun multi-level game for a variety of students!
- If students aren’t reading all of the grand staff notes yet, have them use cards from Middle C Spelling Bee or Treble & Bass Clef Spelling Bee.
- If students are beginners and only know piano keys, have them use the Piano Keys Spelling Bee cards.
- If they need more review of ledger lines, have them use cards from the Ledger Lines Music Spelling Bee game.
- Then all of your students can enjoy playing this game together at their own unique level!
How this music note reading game benefits your piano students
- Helps them focus on reading a few notes at a time, which builds on the concept of reading a single note on a single music note flash card.
- Gives them the opportunity to figure out not only the notes on the staff, but what word the notes spell.
- Provides a way for students to view note reading as a fun activity.
- This note reading game is beneficial for students in private lessons and group piano lessons.
- You can even use this Music Spelling Bee game to teach your piano students how to improvise! Read Using Games to Teach Piano Students How to Improvise.
Using the grand staff note reading game with your students
This fun and versatile game can easily be used in a variety of settings. Here are a few suggestions:
- Private piano lessons
- Group piano classes or group lessons
- Music camps
- Piano parties
- As an ice-breaker activity
- A team-building activity
- Use as an alternative to standard music notes flash cards or formal note reading materials
Learn more about the fun and engaging grand staff note reading game
- See how one teacher uses the Middle C version of this note reading game to promote excellent note reading skills with her young piano students.
- Read The Perfect Middle C Note Reading Game for Beginning Piano Students.
- Learn how to play these printable note reading games in online piano lessons.
Storing and Organizing the Game Cards
I love storing these game cards in colorful 4×6 photo boxes like these. They are my favorites because they’re the perfect size, and the colors are vibrant and fun!
❤️ Related resources you’ll love!
If you and your students love this grand staff note reading game, you’ll also love these music spelling activities!
- Music Spelling Bee Worksheets: Staff Wars Space-Themed Treble & Bass Clef Pages
- Music Spelling Bee Treble and Bass Clef Note Reading Game
- BOOM Cards™: Music Spelling Words on the Grand Staff
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