Title:The effect of rhythmic pattern instruction on the sight-reading achievement of wind instrumentalists This study investigated the effects of rhythm pattern instruction on the sight-reading achievement of woodwind and brass instrumentalists.Results of this study suggest that students' sight-reading of rhythmic patterns might improve through the ensemble experience alone. There was no evidence that teaching isolated rhythmic patterns over a brief period of time affected the students' sight-reading achievement. Further research should employ the approaches used in this study in more extensive time frames and with a larger number of participants.