Purposeful Pathways 4 (Book/Online Resources)

This fourth book in the Purposeful Pathways series presents an extensive collection of curricular materials for learning music by making music. Based on the philosophies of Orff Schulwerk, Kodály, and eurhythmics, this collection of developmentally sequenced learning activities offers elementary and middle school general music educators diverse choices for how to present folk song from a range of cultural and original material, including lessons in singing, literacy, movement, improvisation, composition, and instrumental ensemble.

Each lesson is a collection of learning pathways, to be selected by the teacher, that unfold over time offering possibilities for differentiated instruction and flexibility in diverse classroom settings. This flexible design makes this resource helpful to all teachers, from first year to seasoned educators!

Printable manipulatives for composition activities are available as a free digital download with the purchase of the book.

Electronic visuals (in SMART Notebook, Promethean ActivInspire, and PowerPoint formats) are available separately in CD-ROM format, item 530709.

Purposeful Pathways 4 Curricular Content

Rhythm Content:

• Simple Meter:
• quarter note
• two eighth notes
• half note
• dotted half note
• whole note
• dotted quarter/eighth note pattern
• eighth/dotted quarter note pattern
• syncopation
• sixteenth notes
• all possible combinations of eighth notes and sixteenth notes
• quarter rest
• eighth rest
• half rest
• whole rest
• Compound Meter:
• dotted quarter note
• three eighth notes
• quarter/eighth note pattern
• dotted half note
• dotted quarter rest

Melody Content:

• Do and La Centered Diatonic Scales

Harmony Content:

• Functional Harmony (I-IV-V)

Lessons:

• Down the River
• Compound Meter Piece for Dancing
• Fishpole Song
• Synthesis and Assimilation
• Proverb Play
• Old House
• Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
• Red are Strawberries
• Ol' Texas
• Ach De Lieber Augustin
• What a Goodly Thing
• Boll Weevil (The)
• Diddle Fiddle
• Two Sixteenth Eighth
• Above the Plain (Ifca's Castle)
• Sourwood Mountain
• Sandy Land
• Clementine
• Cottleston Pie
• King Kong Kitchie
• Weevily Wheat
• I'm Gonna Sing When the Spirit Says Sing
• Ritsch, Ratsch, Fi-Di-Boom-Boom-Boom
• Our Gallant Ship
• My Hat It Has Three Corners
• Sixteenth Dotted Eighth
• Love Somebody
• Cape Cod Girls
• This Little Light of Mine
• I Let Her Go-Go
• This Train is Bound for Glory
• Riding in a Buggy
• Donkey Riding
• Cindy, Cindy
• Tingalayo
• My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
• Kokoleoko