Sight-reading itself is a great reading strategy. It is a type of practice for the students to refine their skills at singing and unknown piece of music. These exercises may be conducted with short, unrelated pieces, or even made up pieces that can be catered by the director to what the students are working on at that time. . This involves skills such as reading key signatures, notes in different clefs, and time signatures. Reading strategies are used very often in music class, because singing is reading and that is what most music classes spend most of their time on.
Most classes typically begin with a vocal warm-up.
These exercises are not usually written on a board, but rather sung by the director and then repeated by the students. This makes the students listen carefully so that they can do the exercise correctly and then they can listen to themselves to see if the warm-up is working for them. Also when warming up, a specific vocal technique is being worked on. The students have to be able to listen to themselves and to tell whether they are making the desired sound. There is a very important part of choir that somewhat involves the students mimicking the director.