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Everything you need to know, Before you begin:
stage 1
(if you need Stage 2 , please see below)
About Art of Reading
The Art of Reading is a comprehensive, systematic phonics program designed to build a solid foundation for reading. Using a carefully sequenced, stepping-stone approach, the program introduces each new concept one at a time to ensure your child masters the necessary skills required for proficient reading.
Art of Reading is a mastery-based homeschool phonics program that follows a simple, open-and-go structure. Lessons are intentionally short and focused. Each lesson includes engaging, hands-on activities and consistent spiral review.
Each lesson includes a tightly controlled fully decodable reader without images, giving your child ample reading practice.
Is this the right level for my child?
Stage 1 was designed for children who are just starting their reading journey (between the ages 4-7), and for those who still need support with reading basic CVC words after another early phonics program.
Pace
Please note that this is a skill-based curriculum.
You simply continue to the next lesson until the stage is complete, and this progression does not align with grade levels.
Stage 1 contains 36 concepts spread over 100 lessons (days).
On average, Stage 1 can be completed in 6 to 9 months, depending on whether you homeschool five or four days per week.
Once Stage 1 is finished, you can move straight into Stage 2.
Lesson Length
Each lesson is short, focused, and designed to give your child quick motivational wins.
Most lessons take approximately 10 minutes to complete.
Before you begin
Before starting The Art of Reading Stage 1, your child needs to be able to:
– Recognize all lowercase and capital letters.
– Understand that letters can make more than one sound (e.g., long and short vowel sounds).
– Name vowels and their short sounds.
Table of Contents
What Else Does it cover?
In addition to phonics, The Art of Reading – Stage 1 Covers the following:
- Introduction to grammar
- Kindergarten spelling
- Reading comprehension
stage 2
Is this the right level for my child?
To begin Art of Reading – Stage 2, your child needs to have completed Art of Reading Stage 1 or another Stage 1 phonics curriculum. They must be able to competently decode CVC words. They don’t need full reading fluency, but they do need to be able to blend and decode them with relative ease.
If your child has completed Stage 1 with another curriculum, please ensure they are familiar with the following digraphs before starting Stage 2: th (like in that), ck, sh, all (/aw/), ee, oo, ay, and qu.
Pace
Please note that this is a skill-based curriculum.
You simply continue to the next lesson until the stage is complete, and this progression does not align with grade levels.
Stage 2 contains 26 concepts spread over 115 lessons (days).
On average, Stage 2 can be completed in 7 to 10 months, depending on whether you homeschool five or four days per week.
Once Stage 2 is finished, you can move straight into Stage 3.
Please note Stage 3 is due for release in June 2026.
Lesson Length
Each lesson is short, focused, and designed to give your child quick motivational wins.
Most lessons take approximately 15 minutes to complete.
Table of Contents
What Else Does it Cover?
In addition to phonics, The Art of Reading – Stage 2 Covers the following:
- Introduction to grammar
- Kindergarten spelling
- Reading comprehension
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.
If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the idea of teaching homeschool phonics, you’re not alone. Most parents aren’t trained teachers.
But here are the good news: you don’t need a degree to teach a five year old to read.
What you do need is a phonics curriculum with a 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.
The Art of Reading wasn’t made to fit in. It was built out of frustration and refined by experience.
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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