Playing meets pedagogy in this collection of productive lesson plans, precision-crafted by Artie Almeida and up-and-coming educator Katie Grace Miller. Using the manipulatives that are at the core of this resource, your students will point their way to an understanding of many music concepts. Each of these fifteen lessons outlines various step-by-step ideas for how the students can interact with the pointing pages. You can pick and choose a single activity or, for the full experience, present the entire plan to your students.
Pointing pages are visual music-fluency tools that offer every student the opportunity to interact with various aspects of a piece of music: the steady beat, rhythm, melodic contour, phrase, form, etc. They highlight a specific musical building-block or concept and can be used for presentation, practice, or assessment of that musical concept. Above all, they engage the students and help with tracking.
All of the pointing pages are available as full-color digital files, which you may project or print to create bright, engaging visual aids. Getting to the point of your lesson has never been easier!
Contents:
THE LESSONS
Bluebird, Bluebird Through My Window
Melody Picture Pointing Page
Staff Notation Pointing Page
Birdie Responders
Engine, Engine #0
Rhythm Picture Pointing Page
Rhythm Notation Pointing Page
Solfege Notation Pointing Page
Staff Notation Pointing Page
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Twinkle Poster
Phrase Picture Puzzle Pack
Contour/Staff Notation Pointing Page
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
Melody Pointing Page
Teddy Responders
Jelly in the Bowl
Melody Picture Pointing Page
Staff Notation Pointing Page
Recorder Score in the Key of G
Jelly Jar Flash Cards: Primary
Repeat Sign Flash Card
Jelly Jar Flash Cards: Intermediate
Rondo Form Flash Card
Oats, Peas, Beans
Melody Picture Pointing Page
Sally Go 'Round the Sun
Phrase Pointing Page
Melody Pointing Page Visuals
Go 'Round and 'Round the Village
Phrase Pointing Poster
This Old Man
Rhythm Pointing Page
One, Two, Tie My Shoe
Melody Picture Pointing Page
Ten in the Bed
Melody Pointing Page
The Sun Is Rising
Melody Pointing Page
Fermata Flash Card
Pick a Place
Sol-Mi Pointing Page
Sol-Mi-La Pointing Page
Composition Squares
Frere Jacques
Melody Poster
Puzzle Pack Straight or Bouncy?
Notation Pointing Pages
Suggested Sequence of Concepts and Elements
