As music teachers, we know that music literacy is very important. This resource will look at ways we can increase students’ vocabulary across KS3 and 4, with short, time-efficient tasks that do not...
Dice Wood Teaching Materials
This resource will take you through a range of techniques and approaches aimed at developing students’ understanding and application of textural devices. Its focus is KS3 and KS4, but the early stages...
Liz Dunbar Teaching Materials
This resource considers how we can use instruments to teach key concepts in music. It will focus on practical learning and how we can best approach it.
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
In this resource, Edward Maxwell will be looking at how learning literacy can provide a useful model for learning to read music: teaching music should take a holistic approach in which reading,...
Edward Maxwell Teaching Materials
This project is about developing an understanding of the value of repeating patterns in music. Students will need to know what a riff is, and the different ways in which repeating patterns can be...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
This resource looks closely at rhythm from both ends – the aural, non-notated, knowledge-of-music end, and the notation-based, knowledge-about-music end. Ideas for unpicking rhythm including learning...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
There’s no denying the fact that there are a lot of guitarists who can’t read music. (I’d like to stress that this is focused more on electric or acoustic guitarists, rather than ones who are...
Paul White Teaching Materials
This resource follows on directly from part one (Music Teacher, September 2020), which covered melody, articulation, instruments and harmony/tonality. This resource will cover dynamics, structure,...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
Sibelius is a valuable tool for music teachers: not only can we use it for composition, but it also provides a useful way to bring theory to life. In this resource I will consider how you might use...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
I have used music notation software Sibelius extensively over the years, and it’s a fantastic resource. This resource focuses on Sibelius, although other notation software packages are obviously...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials
It can be difficult to know where to start with teaching a GCSE syllabus: there are so many different parts to get to grips with. You might feel that you need to get cracking straight away with areas...
Jane Werry Teaching Materials
This resource focuses on the key areas of music theory that are common across all exam boards. I'll also share some ideas and strategies that have worked in my own lessons, with the aim of providing...
James Manwaring Teaching Materials