Improve Your Sight-Reading! A Piece a Week: Piano, Level 5: Piano Book

Harris knows exactly what intermediate pianists need to see week after week to build genuine confidence at the page. These pieces hit the sweet spot between being immediately learnable and genuinely musical, so students get the reinforcement they need without the boredom of exercises masquerading as repertoire.

Opening a new page feels manageable and even exciting, not intimidating. Harris writes with real musical ideas inside accessible technical boundaries, so each piece has genuine character despite its brevity.

Intermediate pianists working through Level 5 material who need consistent, structured practice with fresh repertoire. This book serves teachers building sight-reading fluency into weekly lessons and students who benefit from a predictable diet of short, engaging new pieces.

• Set a weekly rhythm: assign one piece every Monday or Friday so students know exactly when new material arrives. Consistency transforms this from a supplementary tool into a trusted routine.
• Pair these with your main sight-reading curriculum. Use this book to reinforce the concepts introduced in the companion Improve Your Sight-Reading! volumes rather than as a standalone collection.
• Read through cold at the start of the lesson, then refine. The whole point is processing unfamiliar notation, so resist the temptation to pre-teach before that first attempt.

Use this across the full academic year as your primary tool for building weekly sight-reading sessions. One piece per lesson keeps students engaged with fresh material while the intentional difficulty progression ensures they're always working within reach of success.

• Processing unfamiliar notation quickly and accurately
• Eye-hand coordination across varied harmonic and rhythmic contexts
• Reading intervals and chord shapes with confidence
• Maintaining tempo and flow while decoding new material
• Building pattern recognition in melodic and harmonic structures