| TABLE OF CONTENTS |
Authors’
Preface xiv
INTRODUCTION
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xiv
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Before
You Begin
Activity Description Page |
1
1
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Level 1
Children Required
Instrument Required
Instrument Symbols
About the Instruments
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2
2
2
2
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| General
Teaching Suggestions |
4 |
Playing
the Instruments
Directing Techniques
Pacing
Using Cassette Recordings
Working Arrangements
Supplementary Activities
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5
6
7
8
8
9
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| PRE-PRIMARY INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES |
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Activity
#1, “To the Music I,” and Activity #2, “To the
Music II”
Activity #3, “Taking Turns”
Activity #4, “Come, Come, Come”
Activity #5, “Sleeping Song”
Activity #6, “Stand Up”
Activity #7, “Now Beat One”
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13
16
18
20
22
24
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| PRIMARY INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES |
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Activity
#8, “Beat the Drum Once”
Activity #9, “Copycat I,” and Activity #10, “Copycat II,”
Activity #11, “One”; Activity #12, “Two”; and Activity #13, “Three”
Activity #14, “Play Your Bell One Time”
Activity #15, “Busy Hands”
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28
30
32
36
38
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| INTERMEDIATE INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES |
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Activity
#16, “The Drum Caught Cold”
Activity #17, “Two and Three”
Activity #18, “Quietly”
Activity #19, “Drums Four and Five”
Activity #20, “Slow Horns”
Activity #21, “Bell Dance”
Activity #22, “One Bell, Two Bells”
Activity #23, “Drums Ten and Nine”
Activity #24, “Sad Bells”
Activity #25, “Magic Wand”
Activity #26, “Drums Five and Six”
Activity #27, “Drums Six and Seven”
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46
48
50
52
54
56
58
60
62
64
66
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| ADVANCED INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES |
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Activity
#28, “Drummer Boy”
Activity #29, “Hurry Horns”
Activity #30, “Try and Catch Me”
Activity #31, “Jack in the Box”
Activity #32, “Spooky Bells”
Activity #33, “Echoes”
Activity #34, “March of the Magic Mingos”
Activity #35, “What Do You See in the Sky?”
Activity #36, “Two Shoes”
Activity #37, “Color Song”
Activity #38, “If—Then”
Activity #39, “Is—Are”
Activity #40, “This—That”
Activity #41, “Simile Song”
Activity #42, “Happy Things” |
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76
79
83
87
91
94
97
101
105
108
110
112
115
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| RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES |
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Perceptual-Motor
Development
Motor
Development
Perceptual
Development
The
Perceptual-Motor Match
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119
120
122
123
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| Attention
and Limit-Setting
Attention
Limit
Setting
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124
124
125 |
Language
Development
Practice
of Speech Sounds
Vocabulary
Building
Sentence
Building
Grammatical
Constructions
Classification
Pre-Reading
Skills
Relational
Concepts
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126
127
127
127
127
128
128
128 |
Number
Concepts
One
vs. More Than One
Rote
Counting
Meaningful
Counting
Zero
Sets
Beginning
Addition
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128
129
129
129
129
129
130 |
| Bibliography and References |
131 |
