Get to the Point

Playing meets pedagogy in this collection of productive lesson plans, precision-crafted by Artie Almeida and up-and-coming educator Katie Grace Miller. Using the manipulatives that are at the core of this resource, your students will point their way to an understanding of many music concepts. Each of these fifteen lessons outlines various step-by-step ideas for how the students can interact with the pointing pages. You can pick and choose a single activity or, for the full experience, present the entire plan to your students.

Pointing pages are visual music-fluency tools that offer every student the opportunity to interact with various aspects of a piece of music: the steady beat, rhythm, melodic contour, phrase, form, etc. They highlight a specific musical building-block or concept and can be used for presentation, practice, or assessment of that musical concept. Above all, they engage the students and help with tracking.

All of the pointing pages are available as full-color digital files, which you may project or print to create bright, engaging visual aids. Getting to the point of your lesson has never been easier!

Contents:
THE LESSONS
Bluebird, Bluebird Through My Window   
Melody Picture Pointing Page   
Staff Notation Pointing Page   
Birdie Responders
Engine, Engine #0   
Rhythm Picture Pointing Page    
Rhythm Notation Pointing Page   
Solfege Notation Pointing Page   
Staff Notation Pointing Page
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star   
Twinkle Poster   
Phrase Picture Puzzle Pack   
Contour/Staff Notation Pointing Page
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear   
Melody Pointing Page   
Teddy Responders
Jelly in the Bowl   
Melody Picture Pointing Page   
Staff Notation Pointing Page   
Recorder Score in the Key of G   
Jelly Jar Flash Cards: Primary   
Repeat Sign Flash Card   
Jelly Jar Flash Cards: Intermediate   
Rondo Form Flash Card
Oats, Peas, Beans   
Melody Picture Pointing Page
Sally Go 'Round the Sun   
Phrase Pointing Page   
Melody Pointing Page Visuals
Go 'Round and 'Round the Village   
Phrase Pointing Poster
This Old Man   
Rhythm Pointing Page
One, Two, Tie My Shoe   
Melody Picture Pointing Page
Ten in the Bed   
Melody Pointing Page
The Sun Is Rising   
Melody Pointing Page   
Fermata Flash Card
Pick a Place   
Sol-Mi Pointing Page   
Sol-Mi-La Pointing Page   
Composition Squares
Frere Jacques   
Melody Poster   
Puzzle Pack Straight or Bouncy?   
Notation Pointing Pages
Suggested Sequence of Concepts and Elements