Accent On Achievement will excite your students through colorful and visually appealing pages! The Teacher's Resource Kit includes special assessment materials for student testing, reproducible music theory and composer worksheets, sample letters to parents, rhythm flash cards and more. The Conductor's Score contains a wealth of helpful hints and suggestions, in an easy-to-use format. Some outstanding features include:

• Meets and exceeds the National Standards for Music Education
• Develops theory, aural, compositional, and improvisational skills
• Based on sound pedagogy for developing proper performance technique
• Includes assessment materials for student testing
• Provides a wealth of classical and world music material
• Correlated books such as Accent on Ensembles and Accent on Christmas offer a chance to provide more performance opportunities.

• Each student book one now comes with an accompaniment CD enclosed! Exercises for the first portion of the book use a live recording by professional musicians, followed by high quality MIDI accompaniments for the remainder of the book. A 2-CD set is also available separately, and contains live recordings for the entire book. These CDs can also be placed in a computer to install "Accent On Interactivity," a MIDI accompaniment program that allows students to record themselves playing, adjust the tempo of accompaniments and much more. This method is a solid choice to get any young band student off to a great start!