Michele Kaschub & Janice P. Smith 
Minds on Music [PDF ebook] 
Composition for Creative and Critical Thinking

This textbook enhances preservice and practicing music educators’ understanding of ways to successfully engage children in music composition. It offers both a rationale for the presence of composition in the music education program and a thorough review of what we know of children’s compositional practices to date. Minds On Music offers a solid foundation for planning and implementing composition lessons with students in grades Pre K-12.