Timed drills, four clefs, honest scoring. Build fluent sight reading in five minutes a day.
How to build sight reading
Five minutes a day beats an hour a week. Set the session to sixty seconds. Pick the clef you actually read. Answer with the keyboard letters, not the mouse, so your hands learn faster than your eyes. Do this every morning for two weeks and your slowest note will move from the bottom of the accuracy list to the middle.
Common traps. Guessing the letter from the interval instead of the position; if you keep getting D and F confused, they are a third apart, and your eyes are reading interval not note. Rushing before you have accurate; speed comes after accuracy, not before.
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