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Pork-ulele tunes each string for the picnic concert. He has written a gentle tune and imagines everyone playing it exactly his way.
Short read · FreePork‑ulele’s
Pork‑ulele’s
Picnic Song
A four-page picnic concert about listening to different ideas and making a song together.
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Coop-Accino adds a sleepy melody, but Octo-Pop splashes in with a much faster beat. Pork-ulele stops playing. “That is not how my tune goes.”
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They listen again: slow melody, quick rhythm, then a bright plink from Pork-ulele. The different sounds begin answering one another instead of competing.
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Their new song is nothing like Pork-ulele planned—and much better than anything he could play alone. Even the birds add a chorus from the trees.
The end · Great reading
What did the crew make together?
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A happy song.
What did Octo-Pop add to the song?
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A faster beat.
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