The number of Spanish-speaking students in the United States continues to grow dramatically, leaving many English-speaking teachers--especially music teachers--searching for tools to effectively bridge the communication gap. Spanish for Music Teachers, authors Jacob Prosek and Heidi Nelson draw from their studies abroad and years of classroom experience to present practical, ready-to-use strategies, vocabulary, repertoire, and reproducible materials for K-12 music educators who serve English Language Learner (ELL) populations. The authors provide an overview of ELL instruction, including insights into ELL terminology and an explanation of the ELL program models present in schools today. They also recommend easy-to-implement ELL strategies that will significantly improve the music classroom for all students. Throughout the book, teachers will find hundreds of practical Spanish words and phrases--alongside their English translations--that cover everything from specific musical terms and instructions to basic conversational Spanish. Additionally, Prosek and Nelson provide bilingual vocabulary cards ready-made for photocopying and convenient templates of bilingual letters to send home. The authors also dedicate three chapters to selecting repertoire with the ELL student in mind. Prosek and Nelson discuss how to choose linguistically and culturally diverse songs, and they include a carefully selected list of fifteen Spanish songs and fifteen English songs--complete with music notation, teaching suggestions, and translations--to put to use in the classroom right away. Designed for music teachers with any level of experience with Spanish, Spanish for Music Teachers is the perfect music curriculum companion. This much-needed resource equips teachers with the practical tools to immediately make a significant and lasting impact on all students.

Elementary classroom teachers too often lack the confidence to present music to their students, because they themselves have little formal training in this area. SONGWORKS emphasizes singing as the means to teaching music in the elementary classroom. The authors assert that everyone sings (as a family on a car trip, singing as a child, singing the national anthem at a baseball game, singing Happy Birthday), therefore this is the most natural and effective basis for teaching music, and builds confidence among future teachers.

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Recordings of works composed for band and suitable for grades 2-5.

(Meredith Music Resource). This book is a unique resource for both novice and experienced band directors, gathering effective teaching tools from the best in the field. Includes more than 40 chapters on: curriculum, "then and now" of North American wind bands, the anatomy of music making, motivation, program organization and administrative leadership, and much more. "A wonderful resource for all music educators! Dr. Jagow's book is comprehensive and impressive in scope. An excellent book! Bravo!" Frank L. Battisti, Conductor Emeritus, New England Conservatory Wind Ensemble (a href="http://youtu.be/nB4TwZhgn7c" target="_blank")Click here for a YouTube video on Teaching Instrumental Music(/a)

(Fretted). The Hal Leonard Ukulele Method is designed for anyone just learning to play ukulele. This comprehensive and easy-to-use beginner's guide by acclaimed performer and uke master Lil' Rev includes many fun songs of different styles to learn and play. The accompanying CD contains 46 tracks of songs for demonstration and play along. Includes: types of ukuleles, tuning, music reading, melody playing, chords, strumming, scales, tremolo, music notation and tablature, a variety of music styles, ukulele history and much more.

"MLT Any Music Teacher Can Du...De" breaks down Gordon's Music Learning Theory into simple, easy to understand language and manageable chunks. No Ph.D. required! This book is a companion to The Literate Musician: How to Hear, Think, Speak, Read and Write the Language of Music, and is divided into 3 parts: Part I: The Theory of Music Learning Theory Part II: The Practical Applications of Music Learning Theory Part III: Curriculum Development (a Sample 10 unit MLT Curriculum) This useful tool for any music teacher K-100 contains the following highlights: Pattern Taxonomies in Duple, Triple, Major and Minor Musicianship Ideas Whole-Part-Wholes Ideas for making Learning Sequence Activities practical Many charts for sequencing objectives Maintaining and establishing an Audiation Foundation Dozens of songs in many tonalities and meters with teaching ideas Many ideas for how to incorporate Bucket Drums and ukulele! "Can Do" Objectives at each skill level Connect your songs and instrumental activities to the musicianship objectives in LSAs Fun games with parachutes, scarves, bean bags and puppets In addition, the book contains a ★257 page Digital Appendix★ with links to YouTube video lessons (!), reproducibles, truncated student lessons, Keyboard Cheat Sheet, Tonality Cheat Sheet, Rhythm Cheat Sheet, writing sheets, and all Reading Benchmarks from the student edition.

I'll trade you this for that! Whether trading marbles, baseball cards, or doll clothes, children have always enjoyed the game of trading. In this captivating book, illustrator Gabriella Geida imagines this beloved folk song as a way of trading toys between friends. Also known as "The Foolish Boy," "Wim Wim Wobble O," "I Went to London," and "Old John Braddalum," the song is most likely British in origin and was frequently recorded in the twentieth century. "The Foolish Boy" is an old English nursery rhyme whose story can be found in variations in Hans Christian Andersen and The Brothers Grimm. The theme of making swaps, each one with a worse outcome than the previous swap, can be found in German folklore. Like the other picture books in John M. Feierabend's First Steps in Music series, The Swapping Song includes a description of the history of the song, the notation of the song, and a link to a free MP3 download of the song, sung by Jill Trinka.

Music is Everywhere! Edward's Rhythm Sticks is a story that shows how much music is a part of our lives. This story illustrates just how fun music can be and how even the simplest things can be made into instruments. This story is a great way for parents and teachers alike to teach rhythm, pattern and sequence. Most of all, parents and teachers can use this engaging interactive eBook to bridge learning, music, literacy and having fun together.