Do you want a homeschool phonics program that works - for both of you?
A simple and clear path to reading? Without the overwhelm? Short & effective lessons with real results? A program that is beautiful fun yet systematic?
you don't need a teaching degree, just the right tools.
The Art of Reading gives you exactly that. Every lesson is mapped out for you, step by step. All you have to do is open the book and teach.
One content creator put it best:
"I’ve never seen anything like this."
That's because The Art of Reading wasn’t made to fit in. It was built out of frustration and refined by experience.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the idea of teaching homeschool phonics, you’re not alone. Most parents aren’t trained teachers. But here’s the good news: you don’t need to be a teacher to teach your five year old to read.
What you do need is a phonics curriculum with a clear, systematic method, that will guide you through the process with ease and clarity. One that’s been carefully designed for you to pick up and use, even if this is your very first year homeschooling.
Homeschool phonics lessons don’t need to be complicated. In fact, they shouldn’t be. You’re teaching a five-year-old, not preparing a university lecture. Lessons need to be short, focused, and written in a way that makes sense to both you and your child. When teaching a kindergartener to read, simple always trumps complex.
Simple doesn’t mean it’s incomplete or not comprehensive.
It means clear, concise instruction that teaches just one concept at a time, using a stepping-stone approach where each new idea builds on the last, giving you a path to follow without the guesswork.
That kind of clarity isn’t just helpful, it’s essential. Especially when time and attention spans are short.
That’s why The Art of Reading is fully scripted and open-and-go. The planning is done for you. Just open the book and start teaching. Each phonics lesson tells you exactly what to say and how to guide your child.
The lessons are short (under 10 minutes a day) making it easy to stay consistent without burning out.
And because children learn best when they’re engaged, we’ve built in hands-on, multi sensory activities with every lesson: cutting, pasting, matching, games. It’s not just effective, it’s fun and engaging.
Stage 1 of our homeschool phonics program covers:
- Short vowel sounds (a, e, i, o, u)
- All consonants introduced one at a time
- Blending vowel with consonants VC pattern
- CVC, CCVC, and CVCC word structures
- Digraphs “th” “sh” “ck” “ee” “oo” “ay”
- Daily decoding practice with no picture cues
- Early spelling foundations using sound-to-letter mapping
- Fun multi sensory activities
- Controlled readers with built-in comprehension questions
- Simple & short one-concept-at-a-time lessons for steady progress
The Art of Reading doesn’t follow a specific methodology, because it wasn’t designed to fit into a box. It was built to be both effective and enjoyable for the parent and the child.
After trying just about every method and curriculum out there, I focused on what’s essential to teaching phonics well: simple, clear instruction paired with hands-on activities for lessons that actually work.
Each lesson is multi-sensory. Children see the letters, hear the sounds, speak them aloud, then move into hands-on activities like matching pictures to words, cutting and pasting, colouring, or building words with sound cards. These change daily, so nothing feels repetitive, but everything reinforces what’s just been taught.
Phonics is taught explicitly, one concept at a time, in a clear, stepping-stone sequence. Grammar and spelling are woven in from the start, not as separate subjects, but as part of learning to read. Children learn why sentences begin with a capital and end with punctuation, what each punctuation mark means, and how to recognise nouns, verbs, and adjectives. It’s a natural way to build a solid understanding of how language works.
Spelling is introduced gently, as children learn to isolate sounds and build words using flashcards. This helps them internalise phoneme-grapheme relationships without the overwhelm.
While it’s not an all-in-one language arts program, when paired with handwriting and read-alouds, it gives you everything you need for a complete and well-rounded kindergarten year.
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You don’t need a teaching degree.
You just need the right homeschool phonics curriculum.
We’ve made sure that everything you need to teach phonics is at your fingertips.
The Art of Reading is a complete three-stage phonics program that takes your child from sounding out their first words to reading real books with confidence.
Stage One lays the foundation, by teaching the essential building blocks of reading through simple, systematic lessons. Stages Two and Three build on that base, introducing more advanced phonics patterns and fluency skills as your child’s ability develops.
By the end of Stage Three, your child will be ready to move beyond controlled readers and read real books with ease and independence.
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