The Sight-reading Sourcebook for Piano Grade 1 presents a wealth of sight-reading practice material for Grade 1 of the major examination boards. This step-by-step approach to the basic elements of sight-reading contains over 100 exercises with hints on how to succeed first time! This series is ideal for pianists of all ages who wish to develop their sight-reading skills and learn new music more quickly.
Instill a love of language in English Language Learners in grades 1–2 using Reading Sight Words in Context. This 160-page book uses engaging poems and short stories to help students recognize certain critical words instantly and become successful readers. This resource includes reproducible activities, games, and follow-up ideas that focus on common sight words that form the building blocks on which sentences are created. The book supports NCTE standards.
Inspire and involve your adolescent students in active music-making with this second edition of Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music. A practical and accessible resource, fourteen chapters lay out pedagogically sound practices for preservice and inservice music teachers. Beginning with adolescent development, authors outline clear, pedagogical steps for the creation of an inclusive curriculum that is age-appropriate age-relevant, and standards-based. You will find timely chapters on singing and playing instruments such as guitar, keyboard, ukulele, drumming and percussion. Other chapters address ways to make music with technology, strategies for students with exceptionalities, and the construction of instruments. Further, there are chapters on songwriting, interdisciplinary creative projects, co-creating musicals, infusing general music into the choral classroom, and standards-based assessment. The book is full of musical examples, sample rubrics, and resource lists. This second edition of Engaging Musical Practices: A Sourcebook for Middle School General Music is a necessity for any practitioner who teaches music to adolescent students or as a text for secondary general music methods courses.
Reading Intervention Case Studies for School Psychologists provides vivid, real-world examples of school-based interventions targeting students’ phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, and comprehension in reading. This book offers a rich variety of applied reading interventions in school settings , spanning strategies such as incidental teaching, word boxes, peer tutoring, taped words, story mapping, and beyond. Each case includes thorough descriptions of the specific area of concern, detailed intervention protocols, data collection and analysis methods, and tips for ensuring social acceptability and treatment integrity. School psychologists, along with related professionals in special education, general education, and speech-language pathology, will come away with new insights into this comprehensive set of well-researched and frequently applied reading interventions.
