Written by curriculum specialist Denese Odegaard, the complete curriculum guide includes goals, essential understandings, essential questions, outcomes, performance tasks, assessments and lesson plans. Correlated with the most current standards in music education, the guide ties into the latest curriculum guidelines of the American String Teachers Association and the National Association for Music Education.

From the very beginning, students are presented with simple and memorable phrases to help teach important concepts in a fun way.

More focus on finger preparation and location, especially as students begin to cross strings.

Four chapters (Opus 1-4) correspond with the typical four quarters in a school year.
Achievable benchmarks give students a feeling of constant accomplishment.

You will smile at the titles. You will smile at the results. Your students will smile at their success.

Four full-page assessments provide clear tools for accountability and help measure student progress in numerous areas.
Interpretation Station - Critical Listening.
Students listen to musical examples and are asked to critique performances, identify style / tempo markings, time signatures and more.