The Music Substitute Sourcebook is an engaging, ready-to-use resource for music teachers or music substitutes. These quality, standards-based lesson plans and student activities have been developed to allow anyone to easily step into the role of "Music Teacher" and maintain the educational momentum of the class. The fully reproducible lesson plans in The Music Substitute Sourcebook have been thoroughly field tested by substitutes with no musical training, and they have enthusiastically endorsed the easy-to-follow format and creative, fun-to-teach activities. With The Music Substitute Sourcebook, students will be actively engaged in the lessons and furthering their musical growth as they discover and explore a wide variety of musical concepts.

The Music Substitute Sourcebook is an engaging, ready-to-use resource for music teachers or music substitutes. These quality, standards-based lesson plans and student activities have been developed to allow anyone to easily step into the role of "Music Teacher" and maintain the educational momentum of the class. The fully reproducible lesson plans in The Music Substitute Sourcebook have been thoroughly field tested by substitutes with no musical training, and they have enthusiastically endorsed the easy-to-follow format and creative, fun-to-teach activities. With The Music Substitute Sourcebook, students will be actively engaged in the lessons and furthering their musical growth as they discover and explore a wide variety of musical concepts.

Discover how, in this curriculum of five books 1, 1A, 2, 3, and 4, music elements (music concepts) are scope-and-sequence taught through learning the active-participation music skills of listening, singing / chanting, moving, playing / performing, improvising / creating, composing / arranging, reading / notating, and describing / evaluating. Also discover how music skills begin with discrimination (rote) learning and progress to the limitless creative levels of inferential learning. Discover how every person at any age can sing in tune (tonal skill) and perform a steady beat (rhythm skill). Singing in tune develops into maintaining intonation with an accurate tonal center, and performing a steady beat develops into maintaining a consistent tempo with an accurate meter. These two skills are the Gateway Skills to all of music. When learned, spectators turn into life-long participators, and the whole realm of music becomes available. Discover how a curriculum, which is not a textbook or music series book, can be your pathway into ultimate teaching freedom and your students' exciting journey into realms of limitless artistic creativity. Discover in Book 3 how 36 performance projects are multi-functional: (1) they bridge the gap between primary grades' rote learning basic skills and music elements (discrimination learning) and secondary grades' complex music manipulating (inferential learning); (2) they focus on developing fine-tuned performance and ensemble skills, and internalized musicianship skills, with simple to complex combinations of the music elements; (3) cleverly adapted Orff-Schulwerk arrangements (field-tested and well-liked) lead students into performing music from Folk to Classical and Medieval to Contemporary; and (4) every project assesses each student's understanding with a brief music element (concept) analysis. (223 pgs.)

The "secrets" you will discover in this reproducible book are the collaborative efforts of veteran elementary music teachers with strong, diverse, and successful approaches. The authors of Making the Grade and both volumes of The Music Substitute Sourcebook reveal proven strategies for success in the elementary music classroom, including what every well-equipped music classroom (or traveling teacher) should have; secrets to creating beautiful, concept-based bulletin boards; model lesson plans utilizing the National Standards for Music Education; assessment and technology secrets to make your job easier; and many more exciting ideas to bring you immediate success

Discover how, in this curriculum of five books 1, 1A, 2, 3, and 4, music elements (music concepts) are scope-and-sequence taught through the active-participation music skills of listening, singing / chanting, moving, playing / performing, improvising / creating, composing / arranging, reading / notating, and describing / evaluating. Also discover how music skills begin with discrimination (rote) learning and progress to the limitless creative levels of inferential learning. Discover how every person at any age can sing in tune (tonal skill) and perform a steady beat (rhythm skill). Singing in tune develops into maintaining intonation with an accurate tonal center, and performing a steady beat develops into maintaining a consistent tempo with an accurate meter. These two skills are the Gateway Skills to all of music. When learned, spectators turn into life-long participators, and the whole realm of music becomes available. Discover how a curriculum, which is not a textbook or music series book, can be your pathway into ultimate teaching freedom and your students' exciting journey into realms of limitless artistic creativity. Discover in Book 2, Grades K-2, how music elements (music concepts of pitches, melodic direction, melody, scales, modality, keyality, beats, meter, rhythm, tempo, form, style, and eras) are scope-and-sequence taught for easy comprehension and artistic musicianship through the active-participation music skills listed above. (228 pgs.)

You’re a secondary instrumental or choral specialist, newly assigned to the general music classroom. What now? First, take a breath, calm down, and then read this book. Two experienced teachers who conquered this challenge offer practical advice with great care and wit. Chapters of the book address attitude, school environment, classroom management, curriculum and assessment, and student performance. In addition, concrete lesson plans are provided for each grade level. This book covers Pre-K through sixth grade.

Basic survival may be your top priority when you accept an assignment as the substitute music teacher! Equip yourself with this invaluable kit of kid-tested songs, games, activities, practice pages and detailed teaching suggestions for each. Use these substitute plans as complete lessons or as supplements to the regular music teacher's lesson plans. You and your students never thought music class could be so much fun! The Instrument Sound Samples cassette contains sound samples of electronic, folk and orchestral instruments and provides a perfect supplement to games in the book. For Grades K-6.