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Step-by-Step Classroom Music offers succinct, easy-to-follow music lesson plans for grades 1 to 8

Grades 1 to 3
•Focuses on fundamentals of music and integrates approaches of Orff, Kodály and Solfège into the lessons
•Provides opportunities for students to listen and respond, sing, move, create rhythms and melodies, expanding on them as they learn new notes and rests
•Incorporates traditional folk songs, Classical and multicultural songs (performed by original artists) audio CD included for each grade
•Includes background notes for teachers and blackline masters/illustrations

Grades 4 to 6
•Introduces notes on the treble and bass staves, recorder and fingerings, major, minor and pentatonic scales, syncopation, skips, steps and leaps
•Expands on Form, pitch, dynamics and composition
•Promotes critical listening to supplied audio e.g. texture in Für Elise or syncopation in African or Indian music
•Provides age appropriate lessons on music and culture
•Offers preparatory lessons for instrumental/choral grades 7 and 8 programs

Grades 7 and 8
•Complements vocal and instrumental programs and keeps the interest of older students: grade 7 focuses on the Blues, major and minor chord progressions, 12-bar blues, circle of 4ths and 5ths, composition over major and blues progressions
•Grade 8 uses the theme of Jazz to create major and minor triads, chord voicings, note and chord transpositions, metres: 4/5, 7/4, 9/8; scale degrees, modes etc.


	BANG A GONG, Let's Create a Song!!! uses seven simple principles to provide an interesting way of learning and creating music through the use of ostinati and percussion instruments.
	Take a Trip offers 50 states lesson plans, packaged with songs written specifically for learning the states and capitals, region overviews, maps and assessment sheets. At the end of the book there is a script for a culminating performance. Using a culminating performance allows the students to reinforce what they've learned while incorporating music, drama and dance. Take a Trip is an excellent social study elementary lesson plan unit.
	Primary Songs Supplement includes 10 songs on a variety of subjects, in a variety of genres. The musical scores are included, along with Primary Song Links which link the songs directly to specific lessons found in grades one to three of the Step-by-Step Classroom Music / Teachers' Choice Program.