Here is a downloadable link to all the assignments I give, as it aligns directly with the book. Each level has 30-35 assignments per year. From there, I have 4 levels of assignments, mainly intended for four grades of students. I choose all the examples that I wish to share with my students over the course of their 4 years and number them 1-135. (the book doesn’t have numbers next to the exercises instead it has exercise A,B,C for each day of the week). Next to the examples in the physical book, I number each exercise that I choose to use. While I generally move in the order of the book, I do not use every example on every page. Each program has specific strengths when it comes to giving individualized homework. In my high school program, the overwhelming number of students are given their weekly homework assignments on the Smart Music platform while the most advanced sight-singers receive their homework assignments on the Sight Reading Factory program. The best way for this to happen is by tracking students and individualizing their curriculum by level in many choral programs, this individualized attention can best come in the form of homework. Since in-class sight-singing examples and choral music reading cannot be personalized to each student, I believe choral students need to continually improve their individual sight-singing skills outside of the rehearsal. In those cases, I opt to use a mixture of reading while gently assisting with piano.
Similar to Chris’ philosophy, my students performance a significant amount of in-class choir-music reading there are times, however, where the music we are working on is far more advanced than the skill-level of my students’s general reading level.