At Highview, I provide weekly Assignment Sheets. These serve to reinforce what we do in class, and in essence, train students how to practice. Engaging with an instrument at the beginning can be daunting if the appropriate skills are not scaffolded properly. Thus, below, you will find two samples. Notice, on the left, how I order the tasks in a logical way, starting without music reading, just focused on the technique and ear training, and then moving to the note reading afterwards, and then playing Baby Shark without music at the end of a practice session. On the right, you'll find a lesson plan that is part of a larger unit for fourth graders. This was our first Long Long Ago lesson, and as such, I didn't assign playing along. Especially for young, beginning students, hearing the piece is a prerequisite to performing it.