The Sight-Singer, Volume I for Unison/Two-Part Treble Voices: Choral Teacher Edition with 1 set of KEY cards

This method respects student independence from the first page by refusing to double voice parts, which means your singers must actually read rather than follow their neighbors. The sequential, logical design keeps momentum high while building genuine literacy skills that transfer to any repertoire you place in front of them.

These exercises feel purposeful rather than rote. The logical sequence creates genuine forward momentum as students move through increasingly sophisticated melodic and rhythmic challenges, and the absence of part doubling makes every student's individual contribution audible and necessary.

This Teacher Edition serves middle school and junior high choir directors who need a systematic, classroom-ready approach to sight-singing that works within regular rehearsal time. It's ideal for ensembles ranging from beginning readers through students building intermediate fluency.

• Use the recorded accompaniments strategically during early exercises to establish pitch reference and rhythmic stability, then gradually reduce accompaniment dependence as students gain confidence.
• Refer to the KEY cards during rehearsal to verify student understanding of intervallic relationships and to reinforce note identification before moving to the next exercise.
• Rotate which student sings the melody and which sings the second part during two-part exercises to develop flexibility and prevent students from cementing themselves into one part.

Integrate this into the first 10-15 minutes of every rehearsal as your sight-singing warm-up, allowing students to build literacy skills that directly strengthen their performance of your concert repertoire. The 100-page scope means you can work through the material over an entire school year, returning to earlier exercises as needed for review.

• Independent melodic reading without part doubling
• Interval recognition and sight-singing
• Two-part harmonic awareness and singing
• Rhythmic accuracy and reading fluency
• Pitch matching and intonation using recorded accompaniment as reference