Complete student textbook
One complete full-year student book keeps the grade-level sequence together from beginning to end.
Faith Readers · Core reading curriculum · Kindergarten–Grade 5
Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency
The complete K–5 reading curriculum you can print at home. Six full-year student textbooks carry a child from first letter sounds and decoding to fluent, thoughtful reading, vocabulary, morphology, and written response — one book per grade, one sequence, Scripture in every week. Each grade includes the complete student text, four quarter-sized print editions, and a teaching guide you can read in full before you begin.
6grade levels
8,952student pages
3,530teacher pages
K–5complete sequence
Faith Readers · Core reading curriculum
Key facts
- Grade range
- Kindergarten through Grade 5 — 6 full-year student textbooks.
- Format
- Print-at-home PDFs. Teaching guides are read page by page in the browser.
- What is included
- 6 student textbooks (8,952 pages), 6 complete teaching guides (3,530 pages), and 4 quarter-sized print editions per grade.
- Lesson span
- Weeks 2–36, a full academic year at five lessons a week.
- Price
- Included in All Access — $39/month for every child in the household, cancel anytime.
- Open to everyone
- Every teaching guide in full, and 8 zoomable sample pages of every student textbook.
Core reading curriculum · Who it is for
Is this the right reading program for your child?
Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency is the spine of the Faith Readers family — the one program that teaches the whole year of reading. The companions around it each do one job.
Choose it when
- You want one complete, sequenced reading curriculum: daily lessons from first sounds to fluent reading, taught from a scripted teaching guide.
- Your child is beginning to read, or is moving through the elementary grades and needs a full year of instruction rather than a patch.
- You want Scripture, Bible heroes, and virtues inside the reading lessons instead of added alongside them.
More Faith Schooling paths
- Your child reads but keeps stumbling on a few phonics patterns — that is the job of Foundations to Fluency, which targets one pattern at a time at any age.
- You would rather print a week at a time than a full-year book — the same weekly sequence is packaged as Faith Readers Weekly Lessons.
- You are not sure where your child should start — HARVEST reading placement names the starting point in about 15 minutes and is open to everyone.
Works alongside
- Grammar Garden — the dedicated language & writing curriculum — takes the writing side further
- Decodable Readers — connected-text practice on the patterns taught
- Phonics Lab — spelling-side worksheets with answer keys
- Learning Cursive — the handwriting companion
- Phonics Builder game — word-family practice between lessons
What you need to teach it
- Grade range
- Kindergarten through Grade 5, six full-year student textbooks.
- Who teaches
- You do, from a scripted daily lesson. There are no video teachers.
- Time a day
- One reading lesson is five pages, about 10–15 minutes of student work, at every grade.
- Format
- Print-at-home PDFs. Each grade also comes as four quarter editions so you are not printing a year at once.
- What is included
- The student textbook, four quarter printing editions, and a complete teaching guide you can read in full before joining.
- What you supply
- Paper, a printer or a print shop, a binder or folder, and pencils. No manipulatives are required.
- Program focus
- A complete K–5 reading and language arts sequence, supported by phonics, handwriting, math, and Bible resources across Faith Schooling.
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Questions parents ask
- Do I need to buy anything else to teach reading?
- No. The student textbook and the teaching guide are the programme. The decodable readers and the practice library reinforce it and are included with All Access, but a family can teach the full sequence from the textbook and guide alone.
- What if my child is not in the grade the label says?
- Place by skill, not by birthday. HARVEST is a free adaptive reading placement that runs in your browser and ends in a printable report naming a starting point. If the gap is one specific phonics pattern rather than a whole grade, Foundations to Fluency is arranged by pattern instead of by grade.
- Can I read the lessons before I pay?
- Yes, and that is deliberate. Every teaching guide is readable page by page in the browser without an account, along with eight sample pages of each grade’s student book. You can see the exact wording of a lesson before deciding.
- How many weeks does a grade cover?
- Weeks 2 through 36 — a full academic year at five lessons a week, with quarterly mastery checks. Because pacing is by mastery rather than by calendar, a child who needs longer on a week simply takes longer.
- How does accreditation work?
- Faith Schooling is an independent curriculum publisher for parent-led education. Families keep their own grades and records and may use these materials within any umbrella or state arrangement they choose.
One program · two coordinated books
Everything needed to teach the year
Organized to give parents a clear path and make every week easier to prepare. The student book carries the daily reading, word work, Scripture, response, and review. The teaching guide makes the sequence visible to the adult.
Quarter-sized print editions
The same student curriculum divided into four manageable files for printing and binding.
Complete teaching guide
Read the complete teaching guide online before enrolling so you can understand the method, pacing, lesson structure, and expectations for the year.
Real sample pages
Eight hand-picked, content-rich student pages per grade—two from every quarter, all zoomable.
Kindergarten through Grade 5
Choose the reader in front of you
Each grade page shows the actual instructional difficulty, full scope, complete teaching edition, and student access options.
Foundations
Kindergarten
Letters, sounds, and first decodingHear, trace, build, and read through controlled stories, phonics practice, Scripture, and guided response.
1,282 student pages1,000 teacher pages
Decoding
Grade 1
Phonics patterns and readable confidenceLong vowels, blends, high-frequency words, suffixes, controlled reading, and cumulative review in a steady weekly rhythm.
1,496 student pages506 teacher pages
Fluency
Grade 2
Word growth, fluency, and meaningVowel teams grow into syllable work, affixes, word origins, stronger passages, and increasingly independent response.
1,538 student pages506 teacher pages
Structure
Grade 3
Multisyllable reading and morphologyStudents break longer words apart, study Latin and Greek roots, read across Scripture and history, and carry meaning into writing.
1,536 student pages506 teacher pages
Knowledge
Grade 4
Roots, history, and academic languageRoot study and etymology support substantial American-history reading, vocabulary development, Scripture, and written explanation.
1,588 student pages506 teacher pages
Discernment
Grade 5
Worldview reading and thoughtful responseEtymology, intellectual and church history, literary figures, worldview reflection, and extended response prepare an independent reader.
1,512 student pages506 teacher pages
The K–5 progression
The work becomes more independent because the structure grows with the child.
- KLetters, sounds, and first decodingSound-symbol foundations · First controlled words · Early comprehension
- 1Phonics patterns and readable confidenceLong vowels and blends · High-frequency words · Early suffixes
- 2Word growth, fluency, and meaningVowel teams · Syllables and affixes · Word origins
- 3Multisyllable reading and morphologyMultisyllable decoding · Latin and Greek roots · Vocabulary in context
- 4Roots, history, and academic languageAdvanced morphology · Etymology · American-history reading
- 5Worldview reading and thoughtful responseAdvanced word origins · Worldview analysis · Church and intellectual history
Faith Schooling All Access
The complete K‑5 Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency sequence.
Preview every grade and read every teaching guide now. All Access opens the complete student textbooks and quarter-sized student files.