Recycle Your Literature

Music educators have long understood that musical skills and concepts are best taught through quality musical literature. This resource shows general music teachers how they can truly get the most out of the songs they teach by bringing them back year after year to buttress and reinforce learning by combining the learn-by-doing approach of Orff Schulwerk with the sequencing of music skills in Music Learning Theory.

This book focuses specifically on how repurposing musical literature throughout a child's elementary education serves and enhances both methods. The first of the two sections contains a brief explanation of Music Learning Theory, Orff Schulwerk, and the conceptual lesson plan. The second section is filled with sample lesson plans that showcase how the same song can serve different musical goals every year in grades K-5. Each lesson plan is complete with information about concepts, skills, objectives, equipment, the teaching process, and assessment.

Contents

• Introduction
• Part 1 - Music Learning Theory, Orff Schulwerk, and the Conceptual Lesson Plan
• Why Recycle Literature?
• What is Music Learning Theory?
• What is Orff Schulwerk?
• What is a Conceptual Lesson Plan
• Recycle Your Literature Throughout the Years
• Part 2 - Sample Lesson Plans
• Lesson Plan 1 - Are You Sleeping? / Frere Jacques
• Lesson Plan 2 - Canoe Song
• Lesson Plan 3 - Obwisana
• Lesson Plan 4 - Postman
• Lesson Plan 5 - Round and Round
• Lesson Plan 6 - Bow Belinda / Sandy Land
• Glossary
• Unpitched Instrument Symbols
• About the Author