Music K-6
Download the following articles about choral singing by clicking on their titles .
Finding our voices: Choral singing tips from Vocal-Ease Modules 3 and 4.
Tips for conducting and rehearsing.
Music Count Us In
The following movie clips and PDFs support teachers participating in the 2009 Music Count Us In (MCUI) program.
The movie clips demonstrate a process and provide strategies that teachers can use for teaching a new song to their students. In the clips, Margie Moore - one of our MCUI presenters, is recorded as she teaches the 2009 song The Music is Everything to a group of teachers in NSW during one of our first video conferences for the program this year.
The PDFs include support materials such as lyric sheets that can be used to support strategies suggested in the movie clips. Register and download these and further support material from www.muscicountusin.org.au
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Teaching the CHORUS
Adding body percussion to the CHORUS
Adding percussion instruments to the CHORUS
Adding percussion instruments and body percussion to the CHORUS
Reasons for adding accompaniment to the CHORUS
Looking at the STRUCTURE of the song
Unpacking the STRUCTURE of The Music is Everything
Teaching the PRE-CHORUS
Adding actions to the PRE-CHORUS
Joining the PRE-CHORUS to the CHORUS
Teaching the VERSES
The song so far
Sing the whole song from the Introduction to the end of the 2nd Chorus
Teaching the BRIDGE
Demonstrate singing the BRIDGE
Sing both sections of the BRIDGE
Approaches to teaching a new song
Teaching strategies for teaching a new song
The Music is Everything lyrics
The Music is Everything Chord chart
The Music is Everything Piano chart
The Music is Everything Classroom activity kitCurriculum resources
The following published curriculum resources are available from DET Sales:
Vocal Ease Modules 3 & 4; arts action CD-ROM; Sync or Swing
Vocal-Ease Modules 1 & 2 (book and audio CD) 1999
Vocal-Ease is a resource in four modules to help teachers
in primary schools develop sequential vocal activities,
from chanting to choral performance. It provides innovative
ideas with new strategies and techniques for planning and
programming music. top
Vocal-Ease Modules 3 & 4 (book and audio CD) 2002
A second repertoire of songs with accompanying teaching
activities for Stage 2 and 3. The accompanying audio CD
provides different versions of the songs to suit the teaching
purpose. top
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arts action (CD-ROM) 2002
 | arts action is a CD-ROM that supports and illustrates the Creative Arts K-6 Syllabus. It offers comprehensive examples of programs, work samples and units of work to help teachers create exciting arts experiences for students. Using arts action will help teachers develop skills, knowledge and understandings in relation to all four artforms from Early Stage 1 to Stage 3. |
In the Music area of the CD-ROM, teachers are provided with practical explanations
of musical concepts and teaching strategies, supported with videos of classroom
practice in action. top
The Programming music section provides advice for teachers on developing units using
several different approaches.
Units of work for each stage sequence performing, organising sound and listening activities.
Sync or swing (book and audio CD) 1997
 | A resource for teaching music K-6 which includes a teacher’s book and an audio CD. The resource is based on a broad range of repertoire, in keeping with the repertoire categories in the music strand of the Creative Arts K-6 syllabus. Currently out of print |
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