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Using children's literature to expand your musical horizon by Katie Grace Miller

Put those fun, entertaining, and beloved picture books to work breathing new life into areas of the music curriculum that require lots of practice.  Whether you’re teaching fifth graders to play an Orff bordun, or helping preschoolers to learn the difference between short and long sounds, these simple, effective lesson plans based on particular kids books will enliven the learning.

• High/low singing voices with Good News, Bad News by Jeff Mack.
• Use instruments to help identify and demo steady beat with Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons.
• Bear Snores On to identify and perform long and short sounds.
• A Frog in the Bog has kids performing and naming sol, mi, and do.
• Demo quarter, half and whole notes by singing and on instruments with Bear's Loose Tooth.
• Students demo melodic direction, maintain their own parts, identify by name and timbre the Orff instruments using Ugly Pie

16 books suggested with lesson plans, plus more book and idea suggestions for Grades Prek-5

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