Primary Junior Music, Drama & Dance

This practical resource emphasizes the special contribution that visual art, drama, music, and dance can make to student literacy and understanding of content-area reading assignments. Focusing on those areas where students tend to struggle, the author helps K-5 teachers provide an age-appropriate curriculum that is accessible to an increasingly diverse student population.

Provides an overview of academically linked research in five arts areas: literary arts, visual art, drama, dance, and music.

KEY BENEFIT:  Gives teachers, child care providers, and parents the knowledge and skills they need to help children develop the intrinsic motivation to move throughout their lifetimes.   KEY TOPICS: Guiding principles focus on meeting individual needs, reciprocating environment and curriculum, integrating movement and music, involving family and community, and getting guidance through assessment and standards.   MARKET: For college students studying to be teachers or child care providers of children from ages 3 to 8.

Key Benefit: Designed for prospective teachers without extensive music backgrounds, this market-leading text provides both a thorough overview of the basic elements of music and a clear sequence of instructional steps that allows readers to participate in the same learning process they will later use as teachers. Key Topics: Gives a proper overview to the basic elements of music, and a clear sequence of instructional steps in order to teach music to children in elementary school, primarily in Kindergarten through grade six. Core content covers: Teaching the elements of music to children; Developing music skills; and Organizing musical experiences. This edition features: expanded ideas on integrating music across the curriculum to enhance students' knowledge of language arts, social studies, math and science; references to the National Standards for Arts Education with direct applications to musical learning; inspirational accompaniment tracks for selected songs using children's voices; multicultural and patriotic folk songs, rhymes and movement activities; activities on beginning drumming; new helpful guidelines on maintaining vocal health; and more tools and suggestions for the assessment of concepts learned. Market: Written for teachers of grades K-6, the text can also be used as a major resource for elementary general music education specialists.

Designed for the first course in music education, Musician & Teacher surveys the theoretical, philosophical, historical, social, and psychological foundations of teaching music and pays tribute to the local and global realms of music teaching and learning. At the same time, the book examines the developmental issues inherent in teaching music to children and adolescents along with the practicalities of motivating students and managing a classroom, providing the concrete application beginning educators need to successfully teach music to children in grades K-12.

"... designed to give elementary teachers with no formal music training all the tools they need to help their students develop an understanding and appreciation for music ... includes lessons, reproducible games, worksheets and puzzles. Also included is a mixed media CD that features over 60 minutes of music and a complete PowerPoint presentation ... follows a well-sequenced curriculum based on the National Standards for Music Education and the Ontario Curriculum for the Arts in Canada."