I try to teach students to read in all positions as soon as possible. I start new students with Mel Bay Modern Method-Book 1, then move them into 3 books simultaneously: The Complete Carcassi Guitar Method, Music Reading for Guitar (David Oakes) and Beginning Jazz Guitar (Jody Fisher). I supplement these with Giuliani's 120 Right-Hand Studies, Sor studies, Hanon for Guitar, Dennis Sandole's Guitar Lore, Segovia's Diatonic Major and Minor Scales, Melodia (solfeggio) and selected classical pieces and jazz standards. I use tablature as well as standard notation. As long as students are working on reading notation a good portion of the time, I feel they can begin studying more difficult classical pieces or jazz chord/melody arrangements with the aid of tablature. I also feel students should learn to be equally proficient with pick and fingerstyle.