<p>OK, so I've been doing some more surfing to try to understand levels. I so hate being a greenhorn at this stage of the game! </p>
<p>The level I previously mentioned was taken from the list at this site: <a href="http://www.mmea-maryland.org/html/orc_solo_grade.php?id=2%5B/url%5D">http://www.mmea-maryland.org/html/orc_solo_grade.php?id=2</a>. </p>
<p>The piece her teacher has assigned her to work on is 6 Airs Varies op.89 (series 1), Dancla. The list above calls it grade 4. </p>
<p>I just found a document at the ASTA site that seems very helpful in describing skills for the different levels: <a href="http://www.asta.net/pdfdirectory/virgviolin.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.asta.net/pdfdirectory/virgviolin.pdf</a></p>
<p>The Dancla Airs 4,5,6 are listed under level 5. A work that dd had chosen to work on before starting with her new teacher is Keler-Bela: Son of the Puszta, Op. 134, No. 2, from “37 Pieces You Like to Play", listed under level 7. She had just started to work with it for a couple of weeks when she played for one of the professors at a trial lesson. He thought that would be a good level piece for her. </p>
<p>Looking at the various skills listed in each level, she has developed or is developing skills from all of levels 5-7. Her teacher has not assigned her an etude book. She has Whistler's Introducing the Positions 1 & 2 and Barber's Scales for Advanced Violinists for practicing scales. She hasn't done a ton of sight-reading as we've gotten going on this, and I know from previous experience that sight-reading is probably one of her biggest limitations. We've collected enough material recently that she's got plenty to work with for practicing sight reading. </p>
<p>Could you share what your daughter's practice routine is in terms of how much time she spends, how she breaks it down with respect to working on various skills, etc.? My dd is not a logical-sequential thinker, and so tends to go with what strikes her fancy at the moment. She eventually hits everything, but it seems that she could be much more structured- even to the point of working with a list. But I know she needs a routine that will work for her, not her logical-sequential, detail oriented mom!</p>
<p>I have been so focused on the next couple of months- and I think that focus is still most important- but after surfing around I realized if we do want to do something for summer we need to get on that very soon. </p>
<p>I really appreciate your input! This is so helpful.</p>