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How to Create Your Own Choral Musicianship Guide

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$8.00

This is a digital resource.

This google slideshow and downloadable PDF will show you how to create your own musicianship guide for your choral students to accompany repertoire. Highlighting the essential elements and musical ideas found in your repertoire not only helps students to learn the music faster, but also with more confidence. Included are YouTube tutorials, editable templates, and step-by-step instructions with examples.

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Keep the Drumming Alive

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$8.00

by Nathaniel Strawbridge

(19 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. This eBook provides resources and visuals to "keep the drumming" alive in the music curriculum, whether in-person or virtual. Through the lens of Sinte drumming, Nathaniel Strawbridge provides teachers with the tools they need to facilitate drum circle instruction and encourage proper playing technique and sound production through helpful diagrams and a cultural-historical context.

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Just Orffin’ Around

Rated 5.00 out of 5

$27.00

by Synthia MacEachern

(126 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. Bundle this with "Just Orffin Around- A Digital Experience" and use the code "orffbundle" at checkout to receive $7 off! This book includes over 100 pages of arrangements, teaching strategies, and helpful visual aids that can be used for in-person or remote learning. Synthia MacEachern provides everything you need to create engaging music lesson plans that spiral through the early years.

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Teaching Music on a Cart

Rated 5.00 out of 5

$30.00

by Amy Walworth

( pages) This is an eBook for digital download. As many teachers find themselves having to teach on a cart due to current issues and limited space in schools, Teaching Music On a Cart will certainly be an essential resource for teachers who must learn to adapt or begin their teaching in a very limited capacity. This book will detail cart teaching logistics, tips and tricks for successful music teaching, lesson planning strategies, and even lesson plans. Offering HOPE in a non-ideal teaching environment, Teaching Music On a Cart will help teachers survive and thrive and perhaps even take their teaching to a whole new level!

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Living in Harmony

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$15.00 – $60.00

Living in Harmony featuring lead vocalist Allison Suey, is a musical work inspired by recent national and worldwide events that have impacted our communities. The lyric establishes that it is possible to live in harmony with one another but it’s a choice we each individually must make. Available for flexible choral arrangements and with piano accompaniment or full orchestration. Sample Track:

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StickBOOM! Rhythm Stick and Boomwhacker Songs for Elementary Music Vol. 1

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$29.99

Creating an exciting atmosphere in your music classroom can be a daunting task! StickBOOM! Vol. 1 is your answer to a fun, engaging, and relevant music making experience. These four original songs arranged for rhythm sticks and Boomwhackers will have students of all ages playing, singing, and dancing along. Pick up your rhythm sticks, grab your Boomwhackers and get ready to jam with Swick and Franklin.

This product is an eBook with digital downloads. Sample Track (Boomtrapper):

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Just Like the Moon Teacher’s Guide

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$15.00

by Kate Bright

This resource is a lesson plan package and extension that accompanies Kate Bright's Just Like the Moon Flipbook! Bundle this resource with the Flipbook and use the code "MOON" at checkout to receive $5 off. [this code is only good for the purchase of both resources] Just Like the Moon is an exploration of the moon and how we all can see ourselves reflected in the different phases. We can’t always shine our brightest. Sometimes we are shy, indecisive, or just not perfect - and that’s okay.

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From Across the Street Teaching Guide

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$10.00

This 16 page teaching guide accompanies the interactive flipbook, From Across the Street. Explore this story and the Palos music of the Dominican Republic with your students! This digital download includes a concept guide and lesson plan, sheet music for the song, From Across the Street, and coloring pages. Bundle and save! Use the code "street" and get $5 off when you purchase this WITH the book, From Across the Street.

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Lift Every Voice and Sing

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$19.99 – $44.99

Lift Every Voice and Sing! These words, penned then orchestrated by the Johnson brothers James Weldon and John Rosamand in the 1900s, have become an anthem of passion and resilience for many people. To celebrate the history of African American culture, along with the future of culturally responsive teaching, Alicia Engram, Franklin Willis and Otto Gross have combined the prominent and popular hymn with a touch of modern day production in this new arrangement.

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Drum O’Clock

Rated 4.67 out of 5

$20.00

by Yeshima

(55 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. The purpose of this book is to present a well-rounded approach to music that engages the learner from multiple perspectives using accessible instruments found around the home, as well as the voice and body percussion. The pedagogy originated from a collection of philosophies found in Orff Schulwerk, Social and Emotional Learning, Community Drum Circles, and Mindfulness. These lessons can be modified for homeschool populations, Non-Traditional Instruction, General Music Classes, and/or community-building events. This PDF includes links to YouTube videos, plans, and materials for sixteen engaging lesson plans. This book is geared towards upper elementary students.

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The Art of Child’s Play: Bringing Playground Culture into Elementary General Music

$15.00

by Martina Vasil

(19 pages) This is an eBook for digital download. From Fred Rogers to Carl Orff, the art of child’s play has been recognized as the “work” of children. This e-book contains handclapping games from school playgrounds in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. All have been adapted for classroom use. As you work through this e-book, consider the following questions as you try out the materials with your students:

How sensitive am I to children’s musical knowledge?
Have I ever made an effort to discover what children are already doing musically?
What do I know about how children play today?
What do I know about the content of children’s play today?
How can we take children’s play and adapt it for the classroom to reach musical, social, and emotional goals?

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The Bells | Choral Musicianship Guide

$5.00

This is a digital resource. This musicianship guide breaks down the main rhythmic and tonal patterns within Lon Beery's "The Bells" (Three-Part Mixed). It also includes a list of dynamics found throughout the piece.

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