Ultimate Introduction to Keyboards Booklet Package

In this ultimate pack, you get:

• Booklet resource for entire unit of work (12 Lessons)
• PowerPoint for the entire unit of work (12 Lessons)
• Medium Term Plan for entire unit of work.

This Introduction to Keyboards booklet is designed to start give students a solid grounding in how to use the keyboard. It has every resource you would need for the entire project including space for starter questions, introductions to rhythmic notation, melodic notation, composition, playing with 2 hands and an assessment.

Breakdown of what the booklet contains is the following:

Flexible pages for starter questions.
Lesson 1: Introduction to rhythms including semibreve, minim, crotchet and quaver (reading and writing notation)
Lesson 2: Using rhythms on the keyboard, including introduction to using right hand and using all 5 fingers on the keyboard.
Lesson 3&4: Introduction to melodies on the keyboard, including 4 melodies which gradually increase in challenge.
Lesson 5&6: Reading melodies - combining understanding of pitch and rhythm over previous 4 lessons to work out some well known tunes (decoding and performing task)
Lesson 7: Composing my own tune, using specific notes for the right hand.
Lesson 8: Composing/Notation tasks which are then played, adjusted and performed.
Lesson 9&10: Adding the left hand to the right hand, with two tunes they used for Lesson 3&4. Students have to play the right hand part, then practice the left and then add the left hand in with right hand.
Lesson 11&12: Assessment task: Using everything students have learnt
There is a mid unit knowledge test on rhythms and notation (treble clef only).
Finally after the practical assessment, there is success criteria and a feedback grid, and finally a Knowledge Organiser for the back page.
Success Criteria for Assessment Task
Feedback on Assessment page
Knowledge Organiser

Included in the Powerpoint:
For each of the 12 lessons there are several slides, including a starter task, an explanation of the practical task (or task in booklet) and images and references to the booklet, Lesson Objectives/Learning Outcomes displayed for each lesson, some slides prompting peer feedback on performances.

Included in the Medium Term Plan:
Lesson by lesson breakdown of the scheme of work, including lesson objectives, plan for activities and what assessment may take place each lesson.