The Music Standards of Learning identify the essential knowledge and skills required in the music curriculum for each grade level or course in Virginia’s public schools. The standards outline the minimum criteria for a sequential course of study within a comprehensive music education program. The standards are designed to be cumulative, progressing in complexity by grade level from kindergarten through several sequences of high school courses. As students grow in competence, their learning thus resembles an ascent up a spiral staircase; at each level, a new door opens onto an experience that is more challenging and more rewarding. The Music Standards of Learning are meant to reinforce this continual dynamic of climbing and exploring, a process that leads to increasing competence! The standards are intended neither to encompass the entire curriculum for a given grade level or course nor to prescribe how the content should be taught. Teachers are encouraged to go beyond the standards and select instructional strategies and assessment methods appropriate for their students.
Kindergarten
Pacing Guides Click on the links below to access content for the corresponding SOL.
| MP 1 (Introduce Skill) | MP 2 (Introduce Skill) | MP 3 (Beginning Mastery) | MP 4 (Mastery Level) |
| SOL #-K.1 Music Reading (2 weeks/ongoing)SOL #-K.2 Vocal Production (2 weeks/ongoing)
SOL #-K.3 Singing (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-K.4 Instrument Playing (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-K.5 Rhythm Reading (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-K.6 Steady Beat (2 weeks/ongoing )SOL #-K.7 Movement (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-K.9 Music History (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-K.10 Citizenship (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-K.13 Expression (2 weeks/ongoing) |
SOL #-K.12 Analyze (2 weeks/ongoing)SOL #-K.14 Expression (2 weeks/ongoing) | SOL #-K.8 Create (2 weeks/ongoing)SOL #-K.11 Integration (2 weeks/ongoing) |
*Note: The Music Standards of Learning are cumulative. Once an SOL has been introduced, students will then build upon this basic knowledge with an increase in level of difficulty and complexity. |
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1st Grade
Pacing Guides Click on the links below to access content for the corresponding SOL.
| MP 1 (Introduce Skill) | MP 2 (Introduce Skill) | MP 3 (Beginning Masteryl) | MP 4 (Mastery Level) |
| SOL #-1.2 Vocal Production (2 weeks/ongoing)SOL #-1.3 Singing (2 weeks/ongoing)SOL #-1.5 Rhythm Reading (2 weeks/ongoing)
SOL #-1.13 Analyze Music (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-1.15 Citizenship (2 weeks/ongoing) |
SOL #-1.1 Read/Notate Music (2 weeks/ongoing)SOL #-1.4 Instrument Playing (2 weeks/ongoing)SOL #-1.8 Movement (2 weeks/ongoing)
SOL #-1.11 Concert Behavior (2 weeks/ongoing) |
SOL #-1.6 Melodic Rhythm (2 weeks/ongoing)SOL #-1.7 Melodic Rhythm (2 weeks/ongoing)SOL #-1.9 Creating (2 weeks/ongoing)
SOL #-1.10 Music History (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-1.12 Integration (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-1.14 Critique (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-1.16 Critique (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-1.17 Critique (2 weeks/ongoing) |
*Note: The Music Standards of Learning are cumulative. Once an SOL has been introduced, students will then build upon this basic knowledge with an increase in level of difficulty and complexity. |
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2nd Grade
Pacing Guides Click on the links below to access content for the corresponding SOL.
| MP 1 (Introduce Skill) | MP 2 (Introduce Skill) | MP 3 (Beginning Mastery) | MP 4 (Mastery Level) |
| SOL #-2.2 Singing (2 weeks/ongoing)SOL #-2.8 Concert Behavior (2 weeks/ongoing) | SOL #-2.1 Read/Notate Music (2 weeks/ongoing)SOL #-2.3 Instrument Playing (2 weeks/ongoing)
SOL #-2.4 Rhythm Reading (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-2.5 Movement (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-2.10 Analyze Music (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-2.11 Critique (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-2.13 Critique (2 weeks/ongoing) |
SOL #-2.6 Compose (2 weeks/ongoing)SOL #-2.7 Music History (2 weeks/ongoing)
SOL #-2.9 Integration (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-2.14 Critique (2 weeks/ongoing) |
*Note:
The Music Standards of Learning are cumulative. Once an SOL has been introduced, students will then build upon this basic knowledge with an increase in level of difficulty and complexity. |
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3rd Grade
Pacing Guides Click on the links below to access content for the corresponding SOL.
| MP 1 (Introduce Skill) | MP 2 (Introduce Skill) | MP 3 (Beginning Masteryl) | MP 4 (Mastery Level) |
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| SOL #-3.9 Improvise (2 weeks/ongoing) | SOL #-3.1 Read/Notate Music (2 weeks/ongoing)SOL #-3.4 Rhythm Reading (2 weeks/ongoing)
SOL #-3.5 Meter (2 weeks/ongoing) |
SOL #-3.2 Singing (2 weeks/ongoing)SOL #-3.3 Instrument Playing (2 weeks/ongoing)
SOL #-3.6 Movement (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-3.7 Improvising (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-3.8 Music History (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-3.10 Integration (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-3.11 Analyze (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-3.12 Critique (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-3.13 Performance (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-3.14 Culture (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-3.15 Critique (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-3.16 Critique (2 weeks/ongoing) |
*Note: The Music Standards of Learning are cumulative. Once an SOL has been introduced, students will then build upon this basic knowledge with an increase in level of difficulty and complexity. |
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4th Grade
Pacing Guides Click on the links below to access content for the corresponding SOL.
| MP 1 (Introduce Skill) | MP 2 (Introduce Skill) | MP 3 (Beginning Mastery) | MP 4 (Mastery Level) |
| SOL #-4.8 Concert Behavior (2 weeks/ongoing) | SOL #-4.5 Movement (2 weeks/ongoing)SOL #-4.11 Critique (2 weeks/ongoing)
SOL #-4.12 Career (2 weeks/ongoing) |
SOL #-4.1 Read/Notate Music (2 week/ongoing)SOL #-4.2 Singing (2 weeks/ongoing)
SOL #-4.3 Instrument Playing (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-4.4 Rhythm Reading (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-4.6 Improvising (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-4.7 Music History (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-4.9 Integration (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-4.10 Analyze (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-4.13 Critique (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-4.14 Critique (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-4.15 Critique (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-4.16 Recorders (8 weeks/ongoing) |
*Note:
The Music Standards of Learning are cumulative. Once an SOL has been introduced, students will then build upon this basic knowledge with an increase in level of difficulty and complexity. |
| Resources | Resources |
5th Grade
Pacing Guides Click on the links below to access content for the corresponding SOL.
| MP 1 (Introduce Skill) | MP 2 (Introduce Skill) | MP 3 (Beginning Mastery) | MP 4 (Mastery Level) |
| SOL #-5.8 Concert Behavior (2 weeks/ongoing)SOL #-5.13 Copyright Law (2 weeks/ongoing) | SOL #-5.4 Syncopation (2 weeks/ongoing)SOL #-5.5 Movement (2 weeks/ongoing)
SOL #-5.15 Critique (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-5.16 Critique (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-5.17 Career (2 weeks/ongoing) |
SOL #-5.1 Read/Notate Music (2 weeks/ongoing)SOL #-5.2 Sing (2 weeks/ongoing)
SOL #-5.3 Instrument Playing (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-5.6 Compose (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-5.7 Music History (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-5.9 Integration (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-5.11 Analyze (2 weeks/ongoing) SOL #-5.14 Performance (2 weeks/ongoing) |
*Note:
The Music Standards of Learning are cumulative. Once an SOL has been introduced, students will then build upon this basic knowledge with an increase in level of difficulty and complexity. |
| Resources | Resources |