Beanstalk Books Scope and Sequence

Our decodable reading programme teaches children systematic phonics in a sequential progression, as they begin their journey in learning to read. Every child that learns to read in this way can build confidence and reading success right from the start. If you are already using a reading programme but on the search for NEW decodable readers, you can view our Alignments Portal which will allow you to download a range of alignment documents to see how our decodable readers would align to your existing programme.

To view the program overview, click HERE.

Weekly Progression

Beanstalk Books uses a phonics-based reading programme designed to teach the letter patterns of the English language, with the aim of helping children become fluent readers by the age of 7. The programme follows a systematic progression, where children are introduced to a core set of letters (s, a, t, p, i, n, m) and are encouraged to build words and play with these new sounds.

A decodable reading book is a book that only contains phonetics that a child has already learnt. For instance, a child starting out in the earliest stages of reading who has learnt the sounds s / a / t / p, would be able to decode words in a book such as at, sat, tap, and pat. Therefore, the decodable book would only contain these words and would not introduce any unfamiliar letters and sounds.

The Beanstalk Books Decodable Readers range are all 100% decodable. Our reading programme is designed to help children build on their reading success and feel a sense of accomplishment as they work their way through each decodable story. Each set of books follows children week-by-week through the programme providing them text-based context to practise their emerging reading skills. Every story in both the fiction, and non-fiction range of books, has been written with a strictly controlled text.

To see how the readers follow the week by week programme, click HERE.

To view the programme overview, click HERE.