Good Habits of Sight-Reading

As a follow-up to Jenny's post, I would like to mention a few good habits that we can teach our students as they work on their sight-reading skills.
If you find your students are struggling with basic sight reading, it is important to make sure they have the basic elements of notes, intervals, and rhythm mastered. Even more advanced students occasionally need to come back to a review of these basics, if they have never been good readers. Once students have a solid grasp of the basics, more advanced music theory concepts will become important in their sight-reading (for instance, recognizing chords, cadences, and form).
In order to really develop good sight-reading skills, it is important for students to be sight-reading on their own every day. One challenge I have had is in finding music for my students to sight-read, since once they have played a piece, playing it again isn't exactly sight-reading. Here are some solutions I have found, and I would love to hear others' ideas on this:

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