Teaching Progressions

Twenty-one Teaching Progressions for Teaching Kindergarten Children to Read

Click a link below to open a pdf file.


Sounds and Letters

Phonemic Awareness: 44 English Phonemes

Phonemic Awareness: A Sequence of 40 English Graphemes

Teaching Progression 1 – 5: Phonemic Awareness

Teaching Progression 6 & 7: Continuous Sounding Letter/Sound Correspondences

Teaching Progression 8a: Stop Consonant Letter/Sound Correspondences

Teaching Progression 8b: More Stop Consonants

Teaching Progression 8c: Review of Stop Consonants

Teaching Progression 9: Group Reviews of Letters a-c

Teaching Progression 9: Student Touch Letters a-r

Teaching Progression 10: Sounding Out Two Letters

Teaching Progression 10: More Samples with Two Letters

Teaching Progression 11: Students Touch Two Letters and Sound Out


Words and Stories

Teaching Progression 12: Sounding Out Words

Teaching Progression 13a: Sounding Out with Think Time

Teaching Progression 13b: More Sounding Out with Think Time

Teaching Progression 14: Sounding Out Words in a List

Teaching Progression 15a: Sounding Out Words in a Story (48-60)

Teaching Progression 16: Spelling Letters and Words

Teaching Progression 17a: Rhyming Words with Fast Sounds

Teaching Progression 17b: More Rhyming Words with Fast Sounds

Teaching Progression 17c: Sounding Out Words with Fast Sounds

Teaching Progression 15b: Sounding Out Words in Stories (61-75)

Teaching Progression 15c: Sounding Out Words in Stories (76-90)

Teaching Progression 18: Reading Words the Fast Way

Teaching Progression 19: Reading Irregular Words

Teaching Progression 20: Reading Stories the Fast Way

Teaching Progression 21: End of Year Goal, Reading Longer Stories


Summary of 31 Teaching Progressions for Teaching K-1 Children to Read

Thirty-one Beginning Teaching Progressions