From Themes & Variations

Denise Gagne's The Recorder Resource Kit contains everything you need for teaching a first-year recorder program, including a teacher's guide, listening activities, games, practice cards, note name "Mad Minutes," Orff accompaniments, piano/guitar chord symbols, evaluation ideas, quizzes, composition ideas, recorder care tips, note name flashcards, and recordings.

The kit includes access to digital downloads of audio recordings and the PowerPoint Edition (PDFs, Notebook files, and PowerPoints, some with embedded sound). Included are:

• All the songs and composer biographies that are in the The Recorder Resource Kit 1 (all reformatted to fit the screen)
• Theory - 1 The mad minutes and answer keys from the The Recorder Resource Kit 1
• Theory - 2 Recorder theory quiz
• Theory - 3 All About the Recorder, How to Name Notes, Counting Music, How to Care for the Recorder
• All the songs are given using KIDNOTES notation (all reformatted to fit the screen)

Click the "Contents" link to see a full listing.

The 42 reproducible student pages, written in standard notation, are also repeated in kids' note notation (with the note name inside the note head to help with note identification). You can also use the kit to make overheads of the songs in the available Student Book. The Student Book also includes access to digital audio.

Handbook will contain the online access code.