SING 6-7-8! FIFTY WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR ELEMENTARY OR MIDDLE SCHOOL CHOIR Format: Paperback

Sing 6-7-8!: Fifty Ways to Improve Your Elementary or Middle School Choir by Roger Emerson is a practical choral handbook for choir directors working with young singers during the adolescent years. This classroom resource presents creative ideas and practical solutions in an engaging, easy-to-read question-and-answer format. It supports both experienced educators and those new to the field as they address the musical, organizational, and classroom considerations that shape an elementary or middle school choir program.

Rather than presenting songs or musical arrangements, the book explores fifty topics connected with directing and developing a choir. Subjects include recruiting, the adolescent voice, choral tone, classroom management, budgets, choral balance and blend, sight-reading, repertoire, programming, and incorporating pop music into the choral program. Emerson also addresses the broader relationships surrounding a successful program, including working with administrators and colleagues and building constructive parent and community relations.

The question-and-answer presentation makes individual subjects convenient to explore as particular needs arise. Recommended resources and practical observations complement the discussion, giving choir directors a single reference that reaches beyond rehearsal technique to consider programming, organization, communication, and the day-to-day realities of working with adolescent singers. Its range of topics makes it useful for professional reference, planning, and continued exploration of choral teaching ideas.

For choir directors seeking fresh ideas for rehearsals, programming, classroom organization, and communication, Sing 6-7-8! brings fifty areas of choral education together in one resource. It can serve as a reference for teaching and choir-program planning or as a thoughtful gift for a music educator working with elementary or middle school choirs.