I'm a relatively inexperienced teacher, and I recently entered 3 of my pupils for the grade 2 ABRSM exam. By far the worst section for all three of them is sight reading. I expect it's because I 'spoon-feed' too many pieces to them, rarely assigning one for them to learn independently. I do this, however, because I know from experience that trying to learn a piece from stratch can be very discouraging, especially if you're only 8 or so years old. Does anyone have any suggestions? How can you effectively teach sightreading throughout the year without it becoming mundane, or taking too much of the lesson time? Anyone know any wonderful books or resources or anything that covers this?
Thankyou - and love the forum btw,
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