Part 1: Ready-to-Use Sub Plans

Sub Plans
Written By Sarah Stockton

Over the next three blog posts, we’re going to talk about Sub Plans: Ready-to-Use Sub Plans, Emergency Sub Tubs for secondary, and Youtube Playlist Sub Plans.  Spring is full of state testing, field trips, performances, and alternate schedules.  Which means the need for Sub Plans! For nine of my years in the classroom, I taught in two different buildings, which sometimes meant writing sub plans for one building so that I could teach at the other.  Talk about frustrating!  Here are some of the Sub Plans that I’ve already created for you and are ready to go!

Wouldn't it be nice to have a set of substitute plans ready to go that already included an instructional video, student packet, Google Form, and a Teacher's Guide/Letter to the Substitute?

This "Plug and Play" animated video showcases Mrs. S at "Choir University" as she leads the students through:

  • 3 Warm-ups

  • Rhythm Practice

  • Solfege/Sightreading

  • Music Theory Review (Treble Clef Lines and Spaces)

  • Movement and Singing Activity

  • Game

This resource contains a Sub Plan Letter template, Teacher's Guide, and six Student Google Forms. This sub plan is ideal for 1:1 classrooms. Simply leave the Sub Letter and the link for the Student Google Form!

This BUNDLE contains SIX Google Forms with the following questions prompts:

  • Note Names and Value

  • Rhythm Counting

  • Rhythm Dictation

  • Solfege Identification

  • Music History Reading Passage and Response

  • Listening Journal

These "Mix-and Match" sub plans include 12 different activities for you to customize for your classes during your absence. These plans are suitable for many grade and musical levels, no technology requirements, and are easily taught by substitute teachers with little or no music experience.

These lesson plans include 12 different activities:

  • 1 Choice Board

  • 5 Group Games

  • 1 Music Theory Worksheet

  • 1 Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

  • 1 Writing Prompt

  • 1 Fill-in-the-Blank Term Story

  • 1 Music History Reading Selection and Fillable Timeline

  • 1 Classmate Interview

This Scavenger Hunt BUNDLE includes 6 separate scavenger hunts, each including 6 prompts/searches. Prompts include:

  • SEL

  • Poetry by Emily Dickinson, Sara Teasdale, Langston Hughes, Rumi, Shakespeare, Christina Rossetti

  • Music from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, 1920-Present Musical Time Periods

  • Music with the theme of Love, Loss, Food, Seasons/Weather, Morning/Night, Water

  • Music by Rosephanye Powell, Abbie Betinis, Ola Gjeilo, Stephen Hatfield, Rollo Dilworth, Elaine Hagenberg

  • Choral Mass setting, Spiritual, Madrigal, Oratorio, Cantata, Jazz/Show Choir

Purchase of this Interactive Choral Journal BUNDLE contains full plans for six consecutive or non-consecutive days. Students can work through their own copy of the Google SLIDE deck at their own pace. Each deck contains a combination of the following activities:

  • Social Emotional Check-In

  • Drag and Drop Rhythm Creation

  • Rhythm or Solfege Identification

  • Melodic or Rhythmic Dictation (Answer video included in SLIDES)

  • Composer Spotlight and Listening Journal

  • Song Setting Comparison and Listening Journal

  • Choir Spotlight and Listening Journal

  • Chrome Music Lab

  • Work for Early Finishers

I offer MANY other Sub Plan resources.  Check out my Sub Plan listings over on Tpt!

Sarah Stockton
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