Secular Musicals - Classroom

(Expressive Art (Choral)). Now you can use technology with FIRST, WE SING! Here are easy-to-use digital tools to help you implement this practical, creative and flexible resource for bringing Kodaly's approach into your elementary music class! No special software is needed. DIGITAL TEMPLATES FOR PLANNING & ASSESSMENT: Planning tools to use "as is" or customize the templates for grade level objectives (yearly plans), daily lesson plans and checklists; Assessment templates that are easy to use for efficient assessment for group and individual progress. Use rubrics and checklists to modify the sequence, keep track of students' progression through the three-step process, track students' growth and development of musical skills, record individual and class progress from the scope and sequence for each grade. DIGITAL SUPPLEMENTS FOR TEACHING STRATEGIES: Create student activity slides for preparation, presentation and practice lessons. Each file contains music notation "snips" and graphics designed for use with your tablet, computer or interactive whiteboard. Teacher-friendly, step-by-step instructions make it easy to customize the content. DIGITAL ACTIVITY CARDS: Now in digital form, individual activity cards can be sorted, selected and saved for easy access. Copy, drag and drop the .pdf or .png files into folders for specific lessons, or just browse the digital card file for ideas. Suggested for grades K-5.

Secular Musicals - Classroom

A sequential sight-singing curriculum for all choirs. Each of the six units (containing four lessons each) clearly introduces new music reading concepts, reinforces those concepts with several rhythm and pitch exercises, motivates students with helpful hints and challenge exercises, and concludes with fun-filled review games and "Evaluating Your Performance" questions. The helpful "Getting Ready" pages (which precede each unit) are filled with music fundamentals, and for choirs who have never read music before, an optional "Before We Begin" chapter opens the book. And it's all a neatly laid out publication and a perfect fit for your students. From whole notes to sixteenth-note patterns, seconds to sevenths, key signatures, dynamics, articulations, and tempo markings; it's all here, and it's all logically ordered to insure student success! Spend just a few minutes a day with this book and your choir, too, will learn to "Sing at First Sight!"

An educational toolkit for teaching phonics, consisting of a book, posters and musical CD, all of which provides for multiple options and inputs for learning, including: visual-icons, auditory and kinesthetic motor skill manipulations, as well as a variety of dramatic and emotive cuing-systems designed to target the affective learning domain. This "backdoor-approach" to phonemic skill acquisition is based on current neural research on Learning & the Brain--specifically how our brains actually learn best!The Secret Stories® primary purpose is to equip beginning (or struggling, upper grade) readers and writers, as well as their instructors, with the tools necessary to easily and effectively crack the secret reading and writing codes that lie beyond the alphabet, and effectively out of reach for so many learners! It is not a phonics program! Rather, it simply provides the missing pieces learners need to solve the complex reading puzzle--one that some might never solve otherwise! The Secrets(tm) are sure to become one of the most valuable, well-used, and constantly relied-upon teaching tools in your instructional repertoire!

Meet children from thirty-six cultures as you sing your way through this joyful book. You'll also learn to say "hello" in each of their languages. New enhanced CD includes video animation and audio singalong.

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

In this new edition of their groundbreaking Kodály Today, Mícheál Houlahan and Philip Tacka offer an expertly-researched, thorough, and -- most importantly -- practical approach to transforming curriculum goals into tangible, achievable musical objectives and effective lesson plans. Their model -- grounded in the latest research in music perception and cognition -- outlines the concrete practices behind constructing effective teaching portfolios, selecting engaging music repertoire for the classroom, and teaching musicianship skills successfully to elementary students of all degrees of proficiency. Addressing the most important questions in creating and teaching Kodály-based programs, Houlahan and Tacka write through a practical lens, presenting a clear picture of how the teaching and learning processes go hand-in-hand. Their innovative approach was designed through a close, six-year collaboration between music instructors and researchers, and offers teachers an easily-followed, step-by-step roadmap for developing students' musical understanding and metacognition skills. A comprehensive resource in the realm of elementary music education, this book is a valuable reference for all in-service music educators, music supervisors, and students and instructors in music education.

It's time for music class! Are you ready to sing the national anthem? Do you know the story behind this famous song? It tells about how the American flag survived a battle. Join Ms. Hill's class as they learn who wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner," what the words mean, and why we sing it.