Zak Morgan

Zak Morgan’s assembly programs are focused on students PreK-5th grade, offering two study guides with activities for both music education and arts integration with other subjects.  Teachers can access thirteen interactive lessons for classroom use at a variety of grade levels. Students use their voices, creativity and body movements to join in the fun. Concerts for Pre-K through 2nd grade focus on confidence building, reading, listening and imagination. Concerts for 3rd to 5th grades teach life science facts through music including life cycles and environments.  Older elementary students will explore literary devices and elements of a good story. All concerts teach basic music lessons including simple rhythmic, melodic and chordal patterns.

Creative writing workshops and story/song residencies are offered for grades K-5th. They involve students in examining the elements of a good story, delving into rhyme schemes and literary devices and exploring the power of the imagination using music and storytelling.

The creative writing residency uses music and storytelling to exercise the imagination and encourage reading with the students. Over the course of the sessions, students learn the basic elements of a good story, create their own story and turn their story into a joint classroom song. The residency week usually concludes with an all-school Zak Morgan performance and an evening performance for families, where the each class performs their own song onstage.

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