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- What does the word sight-reading mean?
- Why is sight-reading important?
- What are sight-reading skills?
- What is sight-reading education?
What does the word sight-reading mean?
: to read (something, such as a foreign language) or perform (music) without previous preparation or study.
Why is sight-reading important?
Even if it's not possible to sing the exact pitches out loud, sight-reading helps the ability to feel the rhythm and get the general direction of the melodic notes and harmony just by looking at the music.
What are sight-reading skills?
Sight reading is the ability to play a piece of music that you've never played before simply by reading it off of a page of written music. In many ways, this skill is no different than an actor's ability to convincingly perform a section of dialogue by reading it straight off the page.
What is sight-reading education?
Sight-read means being able to read a word without the need for 'decoding' or 'segmenting' and 'blending', you are able to memorise the word by sight, rather than by 'sounding out' the word. Children will initially focus on 'phonological awareness'and the ability to use 'phonemes' to 'sound out' words.
