The subject of fingering may be one of the most neglected aspects of reading. I suspect we might all be surprised if we really knew how much fingering affects the student's ability to read. And, we might all be surprised at how many things about fingering we take for granted, sort of in the same way that we assume everyone knows that to the right i...

​On the piano pedagogy lecture circuit and in all the places that pedagogy experts write about the subject of reading, one of the most often-heard statements is, "You learn to read by reading." When I hear those words, I always wait to hear something like, "But with most students there are time...

When children begin to learn to read word s, it is assumed that the goal is sight reading-the ability to say the word a split second after seeing it-and that this goal will be reached rather quickly. And furthermore, it is assumed that the ability to sightread a string of words which make a sentence will follow close behind. If this were not t...