Great book - contains "Planning your Curriculum", "Lesson Planning", and lesson ideas for Kindergarten to Grade 5 students in such areas as "Skills for group instruction", "Timbre", "Rhythm", "Melody", "Texture", "Accompaniments (harmony)", "Form", and "Repertoire".

 

Awesome book - very useful.  Includes the following chapters: Hello! (songs); First Nations; Newfoundland; The Maritmes; Quebec; Ontario; The Prairies; British Columbia; Yukon and North-West Territories; Weather and Seasons; Animals; Transportation; Our World; The Canadian Mosaic; Holidays; Basics; Stories, Fables, Music and Drama; Students' Work; Move and Dance; Instruments; Listening Awareness and Music Appreciation; Goodbye! (songs); Glossary; Tips for Teachers. Available at St. John's Music.

 

     music education (3rd Ed.). New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.    

Very helpful book - includes the history of the Kodaly Method, the "sequence, tools, materials, and philosophy" of the method, lesson ideas for grades K-6, "planning for musical learning in North American schools", songs (organized by tone set -very helpful!!), and an "alphabetical index of songs with analysis for teaching purposes".

 

I love this book - it has a lot of fun ideas that can be adapted for a variety of age groups. Chapters include: "Attitude and Atmosphere: I Make a Difference", "Classroom Management and Discipline - The Teacher/Student Relationship", "Incredibly Successful Teaching Strategies - General Teaching Strategies", "Incredibly Successful Teaching Strategies - Specific Teaching Strategies" (includes beat, rhythm, meter, phrase, pitch & melody, harmony, tempo, style, dynamics, tone colour, movement & direction, form, interpretive symbols), "Attention Grabbers - No-Fail Funsters", "Hello and Goodbye - Personalizing Your Music Class", "Musical Warm-Ups - Mind-Body-Voice", "Introducing and Digesting New Songs - Ideas that Really Work", "Musical Learning Outcomes - Assessment Methods", "Making the Music Room Our Own - Personalizing the Musical Experience", "Beyond the Music Room - Public Relations", "Awards, Forms, Documents, and More" (reproducable templates!!!). Available at St. John's Music.

 

This book is available at St. John's Music ($48.95 for Teacher's Handbook and CD).  The book includes reproducibles of each song (to hand out to students), as well as clipart, teaching strategies, and how the Recorder Karate program works.  The songs get progressively more difficult, and as students master each song, they receive a new coloured "karate belt" (yarn) to tie on the bottom of their recorders.  This program is easily used with any recorder songs (if your gr. 4 or 5 students don't find the music in this book appealing).  The CD has 3 recordings for each song - 1 with recorder & accompaniment, 1 with just accompaniment at a slower tempo, and 1 with just accompaniment at the normal tempo.