Publisher's Synopsis
Revised edition of the ever-popular Kickstart Music series. Pick up and play! Whether you want to spend 10 minutes or two hours on music, Kickstart Music Book 3 is a complete activity pack for 9-11 year-olds. Bursting with inspiring music ideas, it has practical instructions for engaging lessons covering the entire subject and will appeal to teachers with little confidence in teaching music, as well as broaden the repertoire of music specialists. Whatever your resources or previous music teaching knowledge, Kickstart Music Book 3 is a step-by-step, no nonsense guide to confident, effective music teaching. The book includes guidance and activities covering all musical elements within sections on listening, rhythm, moving, pitch and sounds and invention, and includes opportunities for presenting and composition. Kickstart Music Book 3 can be used in a variety of ways and suits holistic, flexible teaching. It is a fantastic 'dip-in' resource that practitioners can open at any page and try, but it is also a comprehensive scheme of work which can be covered from beginning to end over the course of time. Other books in the Kickstart Music series include Kickstart Music Early Years (3-5 year-olds), Kickstart Music 1 (5-7 year olds), and Kickstart Music 2 (7-9 year-olds). David Wheway has been in primary and secondary education for over 40 years. In that time he has been a music leader and coordinator in primary schools, worked for music advisory and as a freelance music education advisor, and is currently a senior university lecturer in education. For the Kickstart Music series David worked with his former colleague and music adviser Anice Paterson, who initiated and inspired the original iteration of these materials.
