The purpose of this book is to provide music teachers with a means to develop their lesson planning skills. It is to give the teacher guidelines and structure that can work as the foundation for flowing, musical lessons. Although by necessity some sample lessons and materials are included here, it is not the author's intent to give the reader ready-made lesson plans, nor is it to stifle the reader's creativity. It is merely to give the teacher a structure, a foundation for creative lesson planning -- Introduction