S-Cubed: Successful Sight Singing for Middle School Choir Teachers and Students is a course that was developed by Mr D during his 24 years of teaching chorus to this age group. Endorsed and used by the Choral program in Durham School of the Arts in Durham, NC, and programs around the world! Think of the S-Cubed Sight Singing system as a workshop-lesson plan combination that includes video teaching links and video teaching tip links to help buyers have at their fingertips many varied tools to help them teach sight singing to their middle school beginners successfully. Recognize what the children don't know. Don't fault them for not knowing it... Then, teach it to them in a fun way they will remember forever. ...That's the philosophy of S-Cubed. To learn more about S-Cubed, go to www.inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com and click "About My Sight Singing Program".

This is a freebie to help explain what you will find if you purchase individual lessons or bundles for S-Cubed! Recognize what the children don't know. Don't fault them for not knowing it... Then, teach it to them in a fun way they will remember forever. ...That's the philosophy of S-Cubed. In this Power Point, you will see the basic lesson plan that will be used throughout the series "S-Cubed: Successful Sight Singing for Middle School Teachers and Students". The purpose of this free offering is for you to see how easy it will be to follow the series. For more info on S-Cubed, go to: www.inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com

S-Cubed Level TWO is coming! This program is intended only for folks who've completed the original S-Cubed series in full. It is not intended for people who've used other sight singing methods. It is a continuation of the original series. Please +1 all of my products on Google Plus! Stay in touch with Mr D by subscribing to my email list: Email me at inthemiddlewithmrd@gmail.com and write SUBSCRIBE in the subject line.

In the middle school choral music classroom, individualized assessment can be very challenging. Not any more! Mr D, creator of the S-Cubed Middle School Sight Singing Program for Beginners is partnering with Music Prodigy to enhance the assessment component of his program using one of the most incredible pieces of 21st technology ever created for the classroom. It is available to S-Cubed users! Download the free power point to learn more!

This offering is designed to explain in even more detail what to expect from S-Cubed: Successful Sight Singing for Middle School Teachers and Students. Recognize what the children don't know. Don't fault them for not knowing it... Then, teach it to them in a fun way they will remember forever. ...That's the philosophy of S-Cubed. In the power point, you will find an explanation of how to use the products on a daily basis in your Chorus and Music classroom. You will also find a video link of Mr D explaining the product in more detail. For more info on S-Cubed, go to: www.inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com

If we had a dollar for every time we asked our upper elementary and middle school choir students to watch us while they sing, we'd all be rich! The goal in this offering is to give you four quick, memorable, fun activities to help your young singers learn the important concept of how important it is to watch the conductor while they sing! You can use the activities all at once or break them up over time. Each activity will take under 5 minutes to teach. You are likely to get a lot of mileage out of these exercises, and the ideas are likely to make you think of even more ways to help your students learn the importance of watching the conductor! In this offering, you will get: *15 page power point with guidelines and rules for the four activities. *YouTube links of Mr D talking to the camera directly to you to describe in detail how he uses the activities with his students. *YouTube links of Mr D actually doing the activities with his beginning choir students. Get outrageous with "Keep your Eyes on Me!" ...and maybe...just maybe... you won't have to say "Watch me" again! Mr D is the creator of the S-Cubed Middle School Sight Singing Program for Beginners. For more info, go to: http://inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com/p/about-s-cubed-successful-sight-singing.html

Lesson 23 Product Description FIND/HOLD/DRILL Tool This program is cumulative in nature. For best results, begin with Lesson 1. Congratulations to you for making it to Lesson 23! You are going to learn a critical skill in this lesson that will help your students enormously as the difficulty increases in the sight singing examples. We have three major goals with S-Cubed: Create success with each progressive step Develop independence and self-reliance among our sight singers. To arrive successfully at 2-part sight singing that includes difficult skips and syncopated rhythms. In this two-day lesson, we focus on an important skill called FIND/HOLD/DRILL. We actually take our students through the process of using this valuable pitch-finding skill seven times on Day 2 in order to raise their comfort level in using it. In this two-day lesson, you will receive: 1 Sight Singing example that includes dotted-quarter eighth note combinations and difficult intervals. 1 Group Rhythm Exercises in 2-parts during which you emphasize performing with balance as well as continuing to help your students learn to see some short cuts that will help them avoid mistakes when performing in 2-parts. You will get two pages of interesting discussion guidelines to help prepare your students for the importance of this tool. You will get a list of several sight singing tools that you can give to your students. You will get special written guidelines for the procedures of Day 2 as well as special video teaching tips for this all-important day. You will get two hand-outs to give to your students that include guidelines for the use of the FIND/HOLD/DRILL tool. As always, you will get links to videos of Mr D actually implementing the lesson to his own students. Your students will stop moaning when you pull out the Sight Singing materials with S-Cubed! It is the 21st century way to improve how you teach Sight Singing. It is carefully progressive in sequence in a manner that encourages and increases the chances of success for your Upper Elementary and Middle School students each and every day. The daily success helps them to be more likely to enjoy the process of learning to Sight Sing. The method is developed by a real teacher in a real classroom. S-Cubed is like a teacher workshop that includes lesson plans and lesson guidance by a teacher who is using it in his classroom everyday. These are real materials that are used in my classroom daily. \ To learn more about the S-Cubed Middle School Sight Singing Program for Beginners, go to: http://inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com/p/about-s-cubed-successful-sight-singing.html

Production Description: This program is cumulative in nature. For best results, start with Lesson 1-The Game! Giving our young, inexperienced Sight Singers a Circle of Fifths and saying “GO” is a sure fire way to make their eyes glaze over and to lose your audience. They are a tough crowd. So, we present this all-important lesson about key signatures in the typical S-Cubed fashion by presenting it as a mystery code that they have to know in order to unlock the information. The preparation is done, and now our students are ready to have the Secret Code REVEALED! I tell my students that it’s time to start on our path toward reading music the “Grown up” way. The goal is to get them to use the key signature to determine what the first pitch of the song is, and that is exactly what they learn in this 4-day, 10-15 minutes per day lesson set that is a part of the S-Cubed Sight Singing System for Upper Elementary and Middle School Teachers and their Students. This lesson is a direct extension of Lesson 14 during which we lay the groundwork for this final step. Also, in this four-day lesson, you will get 4 Written/Oral Warm ups, 4 Sight Singing Examples, and 4 Group Rhythm Exercises that emphasize the differences in the appearances of the dotted-quarter/dotted half note. You will also continue refining their ears as you use the Chromatic Scale in the game Forbidden Pattern, and you will continue to prepare skips. As always, you will get short video links of Mr D giving you some teaching tips to help guide you through each day’s lessons, as well as actual teaching examples of Mr D delivering the material to his own beginners. We are well on our way to successfully reading 2-part Sight Singing exercises that include syncopated rhythms! Become a part of the S-Cubed System today. One step at a time…the S-Cubed way! Learn to teach Sight Singing the 21st way! To learn more about the S-Cubed Middle School Sight Singing Program for Beginners, go to: http://inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com/p/about-s-cubed-successful-sight-singing.html

Lesson 14 Production Description: This program is cumulative in nature. For best results, start with Lesson 1-The Game! By Lesson 14 of S-Cubed, our beginning students are confidently and fluently sight singing unison melodies that include varied rhythms using the numerous skills they’ve learned since starting the Forbidden Pattern game and other exercises weeks ago in Lesson 1. In this 3-day lesson called “The Secret Code”, we create a bit of mystery as we begin the process of helping our beginning students unravel how to use key signatures to determine where DO is located. Also, in this lesson, we introduce the hand signs for the Chromatic Scale through the game Forbidden Pattern. Using Chromatics in the game helps to refine the ears of our students and that will help tremendously with our performance songs too! The training in the S-Cubed system will start to pay for your choral program off in ways you can’t have imagined! This lesson includes 3 written/oral learning preparation exercises, 3 sight singing examples, 2 rhythm examples, a video link of the Chromatic Hand Signs used by Mr D and, as always, we include links to videos of teaching tips for each day’s lesson. Also included are two video links to Mr D teaching two of the lessons to his middle school beginning choir students so you can get ideas about how to present the material to your students too! We are well on our way to successfully reading 2-part Sight Singing exercises that include syncopated rhythms! Become a part of the S-Cubed System today. One step at a time…the S-Cubed way! To learn more about the S-Cubed Middle School Sight Singing Program for Beginners, go to: http://inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com/p/about-s-cubed-successful-sight-singing.html

Lesson 19 Product Description: This program is cumulative in nature. For best results, start with Lesson 1-The Game! AWAKENING! “When the student is ready, the teacher appears.” Well, it’s time to help our students take a big leap toward being ready to receive! It’s called AWAKENING because the primary objective on the first day of this 3 day lesson sequence is to awaken our students to where they are headed for the next 9 lessons! S-Cubed is all about daily Success…except on this one day! I use my S-Cubed program to prepare my own students for their adjudicated festival in Georgia. The standard for Middle School Sight Singing is extremely high in this state. At this critical juncture in the S-Cubed training system, I want to take a moment to let my students experience the high level of skill that will be required of them at the event. I want them to feel and experience what it would be like for them to walk into the Sight Singing room unequipped with all of the tools they need to do well under the pressure they are likely to feel at the event. So, on Day 1 of Lesson 19, we re-create the exact experience of the day of adjudication. On Day 1 of AWAKENING, for the first time, we deliberately set them up to fail by over-challenging them, and we use the failure to help them (and us) wake up to the work that still lies ahead in the process. We follow it up with a discussion. Because students really want to be successful, this experience helps them buy in to the final phase of the learning process of S-Cubed and trust that you know where you are headed and that you have the skills to get them there. Over the final 9 week period of S-Cubed, they will listen better and work harder as they continue to learn new skills and tools to help them become effective sight singers. In Days 2 and 3 of Lesson 19, you will go back to the preparation process, and you will start moving in the direction of sharing new tools like drilling, working to improve balance and increase confidence in sections by using 2-part rhythm exercises. You will continue to develop their ability to locate pitch as you increase the difficulty of the “Follow the Hand” exercise. You will also begin preparation for the “RE, FA, LA” tool through the game Forbidden Pattern. You’ll get 3 sight singing examples, 2 rhythm exercises, 3 written/oral warm ups, guidance on how to use Forbidden Pattern to introduce a new tool, direct links to video teaching tips for each days lessons as well as actual teaching examples of me doing the work with real students in a real classroom. To learn more about the S-Cubed Middle School Sight Singing Program for Beginners, go to: http://inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com/p/about-s-cubed-successful-sight-singing.html

Lesson 20 Product Description This program is cumulative in nature. For best results, start with Lesson 1-The Game! DOUBLING! Congratulations to you for making it to Lesson 20! The hard work you are doing with your students is certainly paying off for you! Let’s keep it going! There are about 7 lessons left until our students will be Sight Singing 2-part exercises that include dotted-quarter eighth note combinations and very difficult skips, so it’s time to arm our students with tools to deal with eighth notes in their sight singing examples! That is what Lesson 20 is all about! We introduce the concept of DOUBLING to our students, and we give them sight singing examples during which they implement and use this new concept. It’s the latest tool we are adding into their toolbox! In addition, on Day 3, you will begin implementing a new Pitch Tool that I call the “RE, FA, LA” tool. In this three day lesson, you will receive: 3 Sight Singing examples that include eighth notes. 3 Group Rhythm Exercises in 2-parts during which you emphasize performing with balance as well as helping them learn to see some short cuts that will help them avoid mistakes when performing in 2-parts. You will get 3 Written/Oral Warm ups to prepare the students for learning. As always, you will get links to videos that include teaching tips for each daily lesson to give you some ideas on how to present the material. In addition, you will get video links to Mr. D teaching many of the lessons to his own beginners in real time in a real public school classroom. The lessons follow the normal daily lesson procedure outlined in the three freebies in the S-Cubed program (except on Day 1). Please check those freebies out if you haven’t done so already! (Written/Oral warm up; Group Rhythm Practice; Forbidden Pattern; Follow the Hand; Sight Singing Example). Your students will stop moaning when you pull out the Sight Singing materials with S-Cubed! It is the 21st century way to improve how you teach Sight Singing. It is carefully progressive in sequence in a manner that encourages and increases the chances of success for your Upper Elementary and Middle School students each and every day. The daily success helps them to be more likely to enjoy the process of learning to Sight Sing. The method is developed by a real teacher in a real classroom. S-Cubed is like a teacher workshop that includes lesson plans and lesson guidance by a teacher who is using it in his classroom everyday. These are real materials that are used in my classroom daily. To learn more about the S-Cubed Middle School Sight Singing Program for Beginners, go to: http://inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com/p/about-s-cubed-successful-sight-singing.html

Lesson 25 Product Description TWO-PARTS! This program is cumulative. For best results, start with Lesson 1: After preparing our beginning sight singers for months and arming them carefully and methodically with numerous tools to fill their Sight-Singing tool box through successful unison sight singing work, we are ready to tackle Two-Part Sight Singing! All of our careful preparation will pay off in this very exciting moment on the S-Cubed journey. The best part of it all is that the materials and ideas they are learning now in this Two-part sight singing lesson will help you and your students enormously in your performance repertoire too! In this 27 slide Power Point, 3-day lesson, we focus on connecting the dots. In past lessons, we taught our students important skills through two-part rhythm exercises. Now, we will take the same concepts from the rhythm work of the previous S-Cubed lessons and transfer them to PITCHES in the Two-Part Sight Singing examples. As always, the examples in the lessons are custom built to teach specific concepts like recognizing unison pitches and unison rhythms. The examples are specifically designed to work for the beginning middle school student. In other words, the problem areas are written to be obvious and clear so we get the answers we are looking for as we help make them literate, successful Two-Part Sight Singers. We work in this lesson to arm them with yet even more tools for their toolbox of successful sight singing, except this time, all of the tools are aimed specifically at how to survive and thrive in Two-Parts. We learn about “Recovery Strategies” and much more. In this lesson, you will receive: *3 sight singing examples *3 rhythm examples *3 written/oral warm ups *Written guidance on tuning ideas to improve intonation *As always, you get links to customized video teaching tips for each daily lesson *And you get videos of Mr D actually teaching the specific lesson to his beginners as he prepares them for their adjudicated festival event that is about 2 weeks away at the time these videos were created. At that event, they will have to successfully sight sing in Two-Parts at the level you are seeing in the examples included in this lesson! The procedures in this Lesson are similar to all of the previous S-Cubed lessons: Written/Oral Warm Up/Two-Part Group Rhythm Exercise/Optional Forbidden Pattern and Follow the Hand/Sight Singing Tonality prep/Sight Singing Example. To learn more about the S-Cubed Middle School Sight Singing Program for Beginners, go to: http://inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com/p/about-s-cubed-successful-sight-singing.html

RECOVERY! This program is cumulative in nature. For best results, begin with Lesson 1: Our students are now sight singing in 2-parts, but what if it doesn’t go as planned? What will they do? Stop singing and stare at you? No! We must arm them with new tools to help them be successful as they work to develop confidence in their own ability to sight sing successfully when they are split in half. In 2-part sight singing, there are some new strategies for our singers to learn. We simply have to teach them! In this penultimate lesson of the S-Cubed Series 1, we begin introducing our students to recovery strategies and important listening skills that are specifically useful in 2-part sight-singing. The exercises in this lesson are custom built to teach the new 2-part tools that your children need to add to their toolbox in order to “beat the page”…and the best part is that these new tools will have far-reaching, fantastic positive impact on the repertoire you are working on in your classroom. With the progression of each S-Cubed lesson, we are creating smarter and better choral music singers. In this lesson, you will receive: *3 sight singing examples *3 rhythm examples *3 written/oral warm ups *As always, you get links to customized video teaching tips for each daily lesson *And you get videos of Mr D actually teaching the specific lesson to his beginners as he prepares them for their adjudicated festival event that is about 1 week away at the time these videos were created. At that event, they will have to successfully sight sing in Two-Parts at the level you are seeing in the examples included in this lesson! The procedures in this Lesson are similar to all of the previous S-Cubed lessons: Written/Oral Warm Up/Two-Part Group Rhythm Exercise/Optional Forbidden Pattern and Follow the Hand/Sight Singing Tonality prep/Sight Singing Example. Your students will stop moaning when you pull out the Sight Singing materials with S-Cubed! It is the 21st century way to improve how you teach Sight Singing. It is carefully progressive in sequence in a manner that encourages and increases the chances of success for your Upper Elementary and Middle School students each and every day. The daily success helps them to be more likely to enjoy the process of learning to Sight Sing. To learn more about the S-Cubed Middle School Sight Singing Program for Beginners, go to: http://inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com/p/about-s-cubed-successful-sight-singing.html

Lesson 18 Product Description This program is cumulative in nature. For best results, start with Lesson 1-The Game! MILESTONE! It’s called MILESTONE because it is a BIG one in the process of teaching our young upper elementary and middle school beginners how to sight sing. I developed this method because most of the books and methods I found started where this lesson picks up, and my students failed miserably. Instead, with S-Cubed, we have set down a solid foundation for our students. Because we haven’t skipped any steps in our teaching process, our students are ready to tackle the big advances offered in this lesson! By methodically building the skill sets they need to succeed, I have no doubt that your students will meet the challenge offered in this important lesson in the S-Cubed Sight Singing series! In this 4 day, 10-15 minute per day lesson: *On the third day, they take the BIG step: Your students will perform a sight singing example that includes skips and steps combined with challenging rhythms. *Teachers will assess their ability to accurately name the notes using “Do, Re, Mi, etc.” using only the key signature to help them. *We will awaken the students to the importance of developing speed in their ability to identify note names using solfeggi *We will continue using Chromatics to refine their ears. The lessons follow the normal daily lesson procedure outlined in the three freebies in the S-Cubed program. Please check those out! (Written/Oral warm up; Group Rhythm Practice; Forbidden Pattern; Follow the Hand; Sight Singing Example). In this lesson, you will get: *One Sight Singing example *Two 2-part Group Rhythm exercises *Guidance on the game Forbidden Pattern and lots of help for this all important Sight Singing example. *“Follow the hand” is a critical component of this lesson and there is lots of guidance to help you use it effectively to encourage success on Day 3. This lesson is all about helping our students successfully sing the Sight Singing example on that day. *Individual YouTube links for each day of the lesson with short 2-3 minutes of guidance and teaching tips geared specifically to the lesson of the day. *YouTube links showing Mr D actually teaching the lesson to his students so you can get ideas about how to deliver the material. To learn more about the S-Cubed Middle School Sight Singing Program for Beginners, go to: http://inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com/p/about-s-cubed-successful-sight-singing.html

This series is cumulative in nature. For best results, start with Lesson 1: My students love to be called “Smart Singers”. Sometimes I say to them while they are singing, “I am looking for the smart singers” or “I can SEE when you are listening”. They respond immediately by using their very best singing posture and trying to show me how “present” they can be. It's graduation day! In this lesson, you will receive: *3 sight singing examples *3 rhythm examples *3 written/oral warm ups *As always, you get links to customized video teaching tips for each daily lesson To learn more about the S-Cubed Middle School Sight Singing Program for Beginners, go to: http://inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com/p/about-s-cubed-successful-sight-singing.html

Lesson 21 Product Description This program is cumulative in nature. For best results, start with Lesson 1. MATH CLASS Congratulations to you for making it to Lesson 21! We have almost arrived to our destination of teaching our young singers how to sight singing 2-part exercises that include dotted-quarter eighth note combinations and very difficult skips. Cross-Curricular work is always a good idea, so we are taking our students to MATH CLASS in order to reenforce the knowledge of note values, and to help our young singers avoid confusing quarter notes with singular eighth notes as we make final preparations for our students to read dotted-quarter eighth note combinations. We will work on increasing their comfort level with the “RE, FA, LA” tool, and we will work toward helping them find the correct pitch for the more difficult intervals included in the “RE, FA, LA” tool. In this three day lesson, you will receive: 3 Sight Singing examples that include singular eighth notes. 3 Group Rhythm Exercises in 2-parts during which you emphasize performing with balance as well as continuing to help your students learn to see some short cuts that will help them avoid mistakes when performing in 2-parts. You will get 3 Written/Oral Warm ups focused on note values. As always, you will get links to videos that include teaching tips for each daily lesson to give you some ideas on how to present the material. In addition, you will get video links to Mr. D teaching many of the lessons to his own beginners in real time in a real public school classroom. The lessons follow the normal daily lesson procedure outlined in the three freebies in the S-Cubed program (except on Day 1). Please check those freebies out if you haven’t done so already! (Written/Oral warm up; Group Rhythm Practice; Forbidden Pattern; Follow the Hand; Sight Singing Example). Your students will stop moaning when you pull out the Sight Singing materials with S-Cubed! It is the 21st century way to improve how you teach Sight Singing. It is carefully progressive in sequence in a manner that encourages and increases the chances of success for your Upper Elementary and Middle School students each and every day. The daily success helps them to be more likely to enjoy the process of learning to Sight Sing. The method is developed by a real teacher in a real classroom. S-Cubed is like a teacher workshop that includes lesson plans and lesson guidance by a teacher who is using it in his classroom everyday. These are real materials that are used in my classroom daily. To learn more about the S-Cubed Middle School Sight Singing Program for Beginners, go to: http://inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com/p/about-s-cubed-successful-sight-singing.html

Lesson 22 Product Description This program is cumulative in nature. For best results, begin with Lesson 1. SYNCOPATION Congratulations to you for making it to Lesson 22! Your focus and determination to help your students sight sing will likely pay off for you in ways you never imagined! SYNCOPATION is a four day lesson during which your students will encounter their first syncopated rhythms in an actual sight singing example. We will help them navigate the unique feelings that can occur when they actually have to sing and sign an example with the difficult dotted-quarter eighth note combination. We will also continue to increase their comfort level with the “RE, FA, LA” tool, and we will work toward helping them find the correct pitch for the more difficult intervals included in the “RE, FA, LA” tool. In this four-day lesson, you will receive: 4 Sight Singing examples that include dotted-quarter eighth note combinations. 4 Group Rhythm Exercises in 2-parts during which you emphasize performing with balance as well as continuing to help your students learn to see some short cuts that will help them avoid mistakes when performing in 2-parts. You will get 4 Written/Oral Warm ups focused on syncopation. As always, you will get links to videos that include teaching tips for each daily lesson to give you some ideas on how to present the material. In addition, you will get video links to Mr. D teaching many of the lessons to his own beginners in real time in a real public school classroom. The lessons follow the normal daily lesson procedure outlined in the three freebies in the S-Cubed program. Please check those freebies out if you haven’t done so already! (Written/Oral warm up; Group Rhythm Practice; Forbidden Pattern; Follow the Hand; Sight Singing Example). This method is cumulative in nature. Teachers should begin with Lesson 1 and implement each lesson progressively. Your students will stop moaning when you pull out the Sight Singing materials with S-Cubed! It is the 21st century way to improve how you teach Sight Singing. It is carefully progressive in sequence in a manner that encourages and increases the chances of success for your Upper Elementary and Middle School students each and every day. The daily success helps them to be more likely to enjoy the process of learning to Sight Sing. The method is developed by a real teacher in a real classroom. S-Cubed is like a teacher workshop that includes lesson plans and lesson guidance by a teacher who is using it in his classroom everyday. These are real materials that are used in my classroom daily. To learn more about the S-Cubed Middle School Sight Singing Program for Beginners, go to: http://inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com/p/about-s-cubed-successful-sight-singing.html

Product Description: This program is cumulative in nature. For best results, start with Lesson 1-The Game! By Lesson 16 of S-Cubed!, we are approaching the half-way point on our Sight Singing journey with our Middle School Children! The students have mastered stepwise sight singing examples with some difficult rhythms. They have the tools in their toolbox to deal with many challenges, and they can figure out many things on their own.….and all of it is done acapella…with success! We have been preparing skips for weeks. Now, it is time for us to help our beginning students learn to see, interpret and successfully sign and sing skips on the actual staff. In this 4 day Power Point lesson, you will get 3 Sight Singing examples, 2 Rhythm exercises, guidance on the game Forbidden Pattern using Chromatics, three written/oral warm up exercises, handouts to supplement the learning of skips vs. steps, and, as always, you will get links to video teaching tips from Mr D for each daily lesson. Also included, as always, are the video teaching clips of Mr D actually teaching Days 1-3 of the lesson to his beginning students. You will get information about his own test results with his beginners so you can see how he is doing as he takes this journey with you while teaching his own beginners how to Sight Sing. S-Cubed! is like a 7 month long Sight Singing workshop for choral music teachers that includes lesson plans, teaching tips, teaching examples, rhythm exercises, games and, of course, PDF, reproducible files of everything including Sight Singing examples. It’s all about success and fun instead of dread, silence and moans. Developed by a real middle school teacher who is using the method successfully in his own classroom, S-Cubed! is not a Sight Singing book. There are tons of those on the market. It’s an all-inclusive 10/15 minutes-per-day system. It is tried and true and doesn’t skip any steps in the teaching process. The method meets the students where they are and gives them only the information they need to be successful and to stay excited about learning to sight sing. And at the end of the course, you have fluent, excited, literate sight singers who are reading difficult two part examples with success and ease! To learn more about the S-Cubed Middle School Sight Singing Program for Beginners, go to: http://inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com/p/about-s-cubed-successful-sight-singing.html

Product Description: This program is cumulative in nature. For best results, start with Lesson 1-The Game! In this lesson: *We will help the students discover ways to read skips quickly. *We will begin giving students strategies for successful 2-part sight singing through the Group Rhythm Exercises. *We will continue refining the ears of our students by using Chromatics during the game “Forbidden Pattern”. *We will challenge the ears of our students by Scoring the Scale using the Chromatic Scale. *We will continue to refine our students ability to sight sing skips of the major I Chord while using all of the “tools in their toolbox” that they have learned along the way during the previous lessons. This lesson is 10-15 minutes per day for 3 days. The lessons follow the normal daily lesson procedure outlined in the three freebies in the S-Cubed program. Please check those out! (Written/Oral warm up; Group Rhythm Practice; Forbidden Pattern; Follow the Hand; Sight Singing Example). This method is cumulative in nature. Teachers should begin with Lesson 1 and implement each lesson progressively. In this lesson, you will get: *Three Sight Singing examples *Three Two-part Group Rhythm exercises *Guidance on the game Forbidden Pattern, Follow the Hand and Sight Singing preparation. *Individual YouTube links for each day of the lesson with short 2-3 minutes of guidance and teaching tips geared specifically to the lesson of the day. *YouTube links showing Mr D actually teaching the lesson to his students so you can get ideas about how to deliver the material. Your students will stop moaning when you pull out the Sight Singing materials with S-Cubed! It is the 21st century way to improve how you teach Sight Singing! It is carefully progressive in sequence in a manner that encourages and increases the chances of success for your Upper Elementary and Middle School students each and every day. The method is developed by a real teacher in a real classroom. The method is like a teacher workshop that includes lesson plans and lesson guidance by a teacher who is using it in his classroom everyday. S-Cubed is the perfect system to use in the Chorus Classroom with inexperienced students. They will love “beating the page”! One successful step at a time…The S-Cubed way! It’s real. It’s proven. It works....the 21st century way! To learn more about the S-Cubed Middle School Sight Singing Program for Beginners, go to: http://inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com/p/about-s-cubed-successful-sight-singing.html

Lesson 24 Product Description HUNT and FOCUS This program is cumulative in nature. For best results, begin with Lesson 1. Congratulations to you for making it to Lesson 24! This is the final lesson that includes unison sight singing. In this 3-day lesson, we focus entirely on teaching each individual child to recognize his own areas of weakness and then QUICKLY hunt for and find the parts of the example that can cause him/her the most difficulty. We teach process. We encourage independent and varied use of tools from the tool box that we’ve developed over the last 23 lessons. It is critical that every child in the room confidently understands what works for him/her and how to refine the problem-solving skills to be as effective as possible as they work an example during the Chaos period. The better each child is at recognizing their own weaknesses and knowing which tools help him/her solve problems, they more successful our singers will be as they approach the all-important 2-part sight singing in Lesson 25! This lesson is our last chance to do just that! If we are successful, they will breeze through the 2-part sight singing examples, and that is our goal! The procedures in this Lesson are different than previous lessons. It is almost entirely “Sight Singing Example” focused. In this 23 slide, three-day lesson, you will receive: 3 Sight Singing examples that includes dotted-quarter eighth note combinations and difficult intervals. 1 Written Warm/Oral Warm up for Day 1. You will get a special “Procedures” guide for Days 1 and 2 because we aren’t following our normal daily procedures during this lesson. We are helping them to refine their Chaos PROCESS now that the examples are more difficult. You will get helpful written guidelines to ensure that you properly prepare them for becoming more and more independent as they learn the refine their Chaos process so it is maximally effective for each individual student. You will get special written guidelines for the procedures of Day 3 since, on that day, they are responsible almost entirely for using their newly refined, individualized Chaos processes more effectively to ensure that they successfully sing the example and beat the page. The activity is timed, and it is up to them to work it out successfully. As always, you will get links to videos of Mr D actually implementing the lesson to his own students, and you will get the direct links to the video teaching tips. To learn more about the S-Cubed Middle School Sight Singing Program for Beginners, go to: http://inthemiddlewithmrd1.blogspot.com/p/about-s-cubed-successful-sight-singing.html