Interactive Lessons for the Music Classroom by Joan Eckroth-Riley
Smoothly integrate improvisation and composition into your music classes. Each lesson starts with a folk song, chant, or poem, which is explored rhythmically and melodically through movement, clapping, singing, or instruments; students then improvise as a group and individually, and finally create their own compositions based on the lesson. Rubric-based assessments help both the teacher and students understand the goals and results of each lesson.
At the Zoo matches rhythms to text, is spoken and played in unison and canon, allows student decisions on accent placement and opportunities to compose a 4-measure rhythm. In Bought Me a Cat, listen for the sound of each animal, sing each melody with words, solfege, and numbers, play the melodies on barred instruments, and write each animal’s melody on the interactive staff. 10 creative plans and reproducibles to project or print for Gr. 1-4. 44 pp.
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