Cristi Cary Miller: Assessment in the Music Classroom: Children's Choir:

Multimedia Visuals for Theory Ear Training and Assessment-Demonstrate and assess with projectable sight and sound keyboard visuals! Discover dozens of ways to use these handy interactive graphics in your classroom all set in a user-friendly PDF format that uses Adobe Reader 9.0 orhigher. Six visuals are presented on the CD-ROM in the Keys of C F G diatonic and pentatonic. Play different patterns of sound as others watch and listen. Show steps and skips high and low ascending and descending patterns and much more. Demonstrate a simple ostinato accompaniment so everyone can see and hear the pattern before transferring it to a pitched classroom instrument. Invite students to compose a pentatonic accompaniment on the spot! Alsoincluded are helpful suggestions by master music educator Cristi Cary Miller on more ways to use these projectable sound graphics to reinforce music theory ear training and assessment. You'll want to keep these great visuallearning tools at your fingertips. Minimize 1 or more of the keyboard graphics on your whiteboard or computer desktop for instant access throughout the day. Great for all your visual learners! Suggested for Grades K-6.

Learn Basic Concepts Through Song-If you want kids to remember something put it in a song! That's just what master teacher Cristi Miller has done in this clever collection of 14 original songs that teach the basics of music. Learn to apply articulations dynamics tempos and more while singing lyrics that describe them - for valuable learning that lasts! Songs are short and to the point with simple actions to reinforce the concept being taught. Don't just say“staccato ” sing it! Use these songs to teach reinforce and assess throughout the year. The enclosed CD provides hands-free teaching and opportunities to sing along with recorded voices. Available: Book/CD. Suggestedfor Grades 1-5.