Children's Literature Music Mini Lessons: Bundle

Looking for ways to incorporate children's literature into your elementary music lesson plans? Would you like to have ready to go, easy to follow lesson plans and extension activities to leave with substitutes in the music room? Check out this Children's Literature Music Mini Lessons (BUNDLE)!

This set contains 26 (and growing) Children's Literature Lessons with Extensions

Short lesson plans where the music teacher or the sub reads the book (some are with CD) and then digs a little deeper with some brainstorming, review, writing, drawing, etc. afterwards.

Children's Literature Music Mini Lessons: Volume 1 Includes:

Never Play Music Right Next to the Zoo

by John Lithgow

ISBN-10: 1442467436

Suggested grades: PreK-3

When You Wish Upon a Star

by Leigh Harline (Author), Ned Washington (Author), Eric Puybaret (Illustrator), Performed by Judy Collins ISBN-10: 1936140357

Suggested grades: K-2

What a Wonderful World

by George David Weiss (Author), Bob Thiele (Author), Ashley Bryan (Illustrator)

ISBN-10: 0689800878

Suggested grades: K-4

Carnival of the Animals

by Camille Saint-Saens (Author), Sue Williams (Illustrator)

ISBN-10: 0805061800

Suggested grades: K-2

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

by Anna Harwell Celenza (Author), Joann E. Kitchel (Illustrator)

ISBN-10: 1570916373

Suggested grades: K-5

Children's Literature Music Mini Lessons: Volume 2 Includes:

1) Orange Pear Apple Bear

by Emily Gravett

ISBN-10: 1442420030

Suggested grades: K-2

2) It’s Raining, It’s Pouring

by Christine Davenier (Illustrator), Performed by Peter Paul and Mary

ISBN-10: 1936140772

Suggested grades: PreK-2

3) Day is Done

by Peter Yarrow (Author), Melissa Sweet (Illustrator)

ISBN-10: 140274806X

Suggested grades: PreK-3

4) Blowin’ in the Wind

by Bob Dylan (Author), Jon J Muth (Illustrator)

ISBN-10: 1402780028

Suggested grades: 2-5

5) Sunshine On My Shoulders

by John Denver (Author), Christopher Canyon

ISBN-10: 1584690488

Suggested grades: K-2

Children's Literature Music Mini Lessons: Volume 3 Includes:

1) 1, 2, Buckle My Shoe

Illustrated by: Anna Grossnickle Hines

ISBN: 0152063056

Suggested grades: PreK-Kindergarten

2) Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin

by Lloyd Moss

ISBN-10: 0689835248

Suggested Grades: K-3

3) The Magic Flute

by Anne Gatti

ISBN-10: 0811849740

Suggested grades: 4-6

4) The Farewell Symphony

by Anna Harwell Celenza

ISBN-10: 1570914060

Suggested grades: 3-6

5) The Story of the Orchestra

by Robert Levine

ISBN-10: 1579121489

Suggested grades: 4-8

Children's Literature Music Mini Lessons: Volume 4 - Women of Jazz

1) Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa

Author: Andrea Davis Pinkney

ISBN: 1439591601

Suggested Grades: 2-6

2) A-Tisket, A-Tasket: Ella Fitzgerald

Illustrated by: Ora Eitan

ISBN: 0399232060

Suggested Grades: K-2

3) Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald

Author: Roxane Orgill

ISBN: 0763664588

Suggested Grades: 4-7

4) Mister and Lady Day: Billie Holiday and the Dog Who Loved Her

Author: Amy Novesky

ISBN: 1439591601

Suggested Grades: K-5

5) The Little Piano Girl: The Story of Mary Lou Williams, Jazz Legend

Author: Ann Ingalls

ISBN: 0618959742

Suggested Grades: 1-5

6) The Little Melba And Her Big Trombone

Author: Ann Ingalls

ISBN: 0618959742

Suggested Grades: 1-5

Children's Literature Music Mini Lessons: Volume 5 - Men of Jazz

1) Just a Lucky So and So: The Story of Louis Armstrong

Author: Lesa Cline-Ransome

ISBN: 0823434281

Suggested Grades: 1-4

2) Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra

Author: Andrea David Pinkney

ISBN: 0786814209

Suggested Grades: 2-6

3) Bird & Diz

Author: Gary Golio

ISBN: 0763666602

Suggested Grades: K-3

4) Before John Was a Jazz Giant: A Song of John Coltrane

Author: Carole Boston Weatherford

ISBN: 0805079947

Suggested Grades: Kindergarten – 4th Grade

5) Birth of the Cool: How Jazz Great Miles Davis Found His Sound

Author: Kathleen Cornell Berman

ISBN: 1624146902

Suggested Grades: 2nd – 5th Grade

Many of these books are ones that you can find in your library, but they are great to have in your personal or classroom library as well!

PLEASE NOTE Volume 1 is included in my Elementary Music Sub Plans Bundle with Games

. If you decide to purchase this bundle and already own my sub bundle, please email me at Lindsayjervis@hotmail.com and I will give you store credit for the overlap.