Music Work-Books

Music Writing books & resource kits

Music Writing Work-Books For Primary Students

Maximise your students’ potential by using this highly regarded, effective literacy program to promote the development 

of music reading and writing skills in your primary students.

We support teachers by providing insightful teacher manuals which offer useful teaching strategies, tips, and guides on the sequential development of musical concepts, methodology, course planning overviews, lesson planning and assessments for Primary Music Programs.

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The Take Note Music Writing Books Level 1 – 5 are pure magic! They have saved me hundreds of hours of preparation and have made my work in the classroom a joy for the children and myself. The class sets are simply a music teacher’s best friend and the Teacher References make a teacher’s life so much easier. I never tire of sharing Mrs Treble Clef’s musical farm adventures with the children!
Anne-Kristin Christie
Hamilton and Alexander College, Hamilton VIC

The Music Writing program provides:

  • Student Books 1 - 5
  • Teacher Books 1 - 5
  • Resource Kits 1 - 5

The Take Note Music work books provide a set of thorough sequential and practical lesson guides for music teachers. The program offers teachers a succinct, step-by-step guide for developing students’ musical understanding and meta-cognition skills with long and short term lesson planning for teachers.

The program promotes:

  • Music Literacy - music reading and writing skills
  • Independent musicians
  • Understanding through clearly set out written activities
  • Catering for individual differences through extension activities included in the Teacher Books

Our aim is to nurture the practice of true music literacy; where students activate their seeing ear and their hearing eye – their musicianship is developed so that they can analyse what they are hearing and imagine it in writing. Students can sight sing from music notation without the aid of an instrument. This program fosters in students critical thinking and listening, creativity, collaboration and communication in the classroom through the language of music.

**3rd Editions have been released for Books 4 & 5. ‘Dinah’ is replaced by ‘Kookaburra Laughing’. See Teacher Book 4 for notation.

Features:

  • Students love the clearly set out, sequential tasks
  • A4 format with 26 - 28 pages
  • Rhythm, Sol-fa and Stave activities
  • Fun to colour in song pictures which give the teacher the opportunity to work with individual students to do assessment
  • This 5-book series caters for individuality through a number of musical extension activities included in the accompanying teacher books
  • It is proposed that each written activity is incorporated as a small segment of an active music making lesson
  • RRP $13.75 Available through school suppliers when placed on student book lists
  • Direct Orders $11 each - minimum orders of 15 - by email from Take Note Music for this 20% discount plus postage.
  • For schools who are already using our Student Books, you may order fewer books simply by emailing with a purchase order number if your school requires one.
FAQ: What is the best way to implement the Take Note Music Writing books in my school?
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RESOURCE KITS & upgrades

kits 1 - 5

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Cost of Books:

  • Take Note Music Student Writing Book 1 $13.75 - 2nd Edition
  • Take Note Music Student Writing Book 2 $13.75 - 2nd Edition
  • Take Note Music Student Writing Book 3 $13.75 - 2nd Edition
  • Take Note Music Student Writing Book 4 $13.75 - 3rd Edition
  • Take Note Music Student Writing Book 5 $13.75 - 3rd Edition
  • Take Note Music Making Student Book 1 for Recorder & Tuned Percussion $14.50 (For use at Years 3-5) - 2nd Edition

Teaching Tips & Tea – FREE short Professional Learning videos:

 

When creating your own music lesson plans, you need to consider ways of transitioning from one lesson segment to the next. In the younger years of primary, this may be done with melodic cues.  See Teaching Tips & Tea episode 11 in our website blog.


In episode 10, we guide you to understand the powerful impact of Dylan Wiliam’s ‘Formative Assessment’ strategies. The activities explained in the music lesson plans in the Music Writing Teacher books are brought to life here for teachers to learn how the ‘Which One?’ activity and ‘Let’s Check’ strategies invite students to show their learning and share their thinking.

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