ALFRED READY Set Rhythm Sequential Lessons To Develop Rhythmic Reading

Category: General Music and Classroom Publications
Format: Book
Version: Teacher's Handbook

This innovative curriculum introduces the elements of rhythmic notation through movement-based class activities. Designed to be seamlessly integrated into your music class or ensemble rehearsal, each 10-minute kinesthetic exercise is presented in lesson plan format with National Standards, teacher instructions, and notated rhythmic concepts. Features 80 lessons divided into eight progressive units, each concluding with a reproducible student assessment. The activities are so much fun that your students will hardly notice how much they're learning! Recommended for grades 4--9.

Title List

• Unit 1: Whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, eighth notes, downbeat 
• Unit 2: Tempo, half rests, quarter rests 
• Unit 3: Dotted whole notes, dotted half notes, bar lines, time signatures 
• Unit 4: Dotted quarter notes, whole rests, repeat signs 
• Unit 5: Sixteenth notes, dictation 
• Unit 6: Sixteenth-note figures, dotted eighth notes 
• Unit 7: Ties, meter, 2/2, 2/4, 3/4 
• Unit 8: 6/8, cumulative review 
• Reproducible Assessments 
• About the Authors