This slideshow is scaffolded to allow students to be successful through chunking.In my district, third graders begin the recorder in October. We have music once a week. All of our recorder playing experiences prior to this are rote and aural. This lesson is the first one where we are looking at printed letters and following to a beat. (We start learning melodic notation in January, and by March we are reading/playing from notation.) One thing that needs to be taught is how to hold the longe