Assisted Practice
During assisted practice, music teachers share the responsibility of speaking or singing the text. A teacher or other vocal model is still providing support, but the students begin to work on their own with less assistance. The video above shows my choir learning how to sing the Maori song, E Karange E Te Iwi E, which they learned by watching this video of men from New Zealand singing the song. Here's a recording of the BoyChoir singing this song at their spring concert, assisted only by a student playing guitar.
Other examples include:
1. Call and Response songs with text being shown while listening to song.
2. Call and Response exercises emphasizing reading musical notation with syllables.
3. Partner songs.
4. Rounds and Canons
5. Songs with ostinato passages to build harmony.
6. Students watch other performers sing words with scrolling text.
7. Students practice with other performers.
8. Screencast of a melody scrolling in real time showing text and syllables.
9. Virtual choir with one person singing four parts.
10. Question and Answer phrases
11. Completing a phrase. The teacher sings most of the phrase, and students fill in the blank.
Other examples include:
1. Call and Response songs with text being shown while listening to song.
2. Call and Response exercises emphasizing reading musical notation with syllables.
3. Partner songs.
4. Rounds and Canons
5. Songs with ostinato passages to build harmony.
6. Students watch other performers sing words with scrolling text.
7. Students practice with other performers.
8. Screencast of a melody scrolling in real time showing text and syllables.
9. Virtual choir with one person singing four parts.
10. Question and Answer phrases
11. Completing a phrase. The teacher sings most of the phrase, and students fill in the blank.
References and Resources for Assisted Practice
Assisted reading practice for poor readers. (n.d.). Retrieved July 14, 2015, from http://www.ernweb.com/educational-research-articles/assisted-reading-practice-for-poor-readers/
Assisted reading practice for poor readers. (n.d.). Retrieved July 14, 2015, from http://www.ernweb.com/educational-research-articles/assisted-reading-practice-for-poor-readers/