Rhythm Basics - Student Edition

Rhythm Basics is a supplemental consumable workbook to help you re-teach, reinforce, and support rhythm understanding in middle level and early high school bands and orchestras.  Units are sequential.  Once a concept is introduced, it is reinforced through the rest of the book.  

A variety of activities in each unit challenge students to extend their understanding of rhythms to higher-level thinking by moving up through Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy.  Activities include:

• Writing in the counting
• Drawing in the bar lines
• Substituting rests for notes
• Performing rhythm lines and duets
• Detecting errors in measures
• Writing rhythm dictation
• Completing the measures
• Composing rhythm lines and duets within specific parameters

Two or three culminating, summative assessments are provided in the Teacher’s Edition for each unit:

• Counting Quiz: Write in the counting
• Dictation Quiz: Rhythmic dictation
• Quiz Block: Rhythm performance

These half-page assessments make it easy to gather evidence of student understanding before moving on to the next unit.