The transition from  “learning to read”  to  “reading to learn.”

Book 1

• Note names on the staff and ledger lines (treble clef for violin, alto clef for viola, bass clef for cello)
• Stem and flag directions
• Violin and viola: All finger patterns in first position with sharps.
  Cello: First Position “Regular” in sharps and flats.
  (With fingerboard charts to fill in, pieces to play, and fingering to explain)
• Note and rest values
• Rhythm relationships
• Clapping and counting basic rhythms in 4/4

Book 2

• Violin and viola: All finger patterns in first position with flats.
  Cello: Forward and Backward Extensions with sharps and flats.
  (With fingerboard charts to fill in, pieces to play, and fingering to explain)
• Time signatures
• Dotted notes
• Clapping and counting predictable rhythms with a variety of beat values; clapping and counting dotted half notes and dotted quarter-eighth note combinations
• Staccato and legato
• Slurs and ties

Book 3

• Half and whole steps
• Major scales and key signatures
• Finger patterns in first position through 3 sharps and 2 flats.
  (With fingerboard charts to fill in, finger patterns to play, and fingering to explain
• Compound time explained using jingles and poems
• Clapping and counting in compound time