Intery Mintery : Nursery Rhymes for Body, Voice and Orff Ensemble

This book offers both philosophical and practical ways to teach music through language and enhance literacy programs with music. It includes 48 tried-and-true activities for preschool age through upper elementary. Lesson plans usable by both music and classroom teachers. A sequential development from phonemes to poems, from speech pieces to pentatonic orchestrations. Arrangements for Orff Instrument ensemble and details of Orff orchestration. Models of how to imaginatively animate rhymes.