Stepping Stones Reading
Maps 1 to 4 – Starting Out in The Zoo
Step 1 – Starting Out in the Zoo is aimed at 3–6 year‑olds who have little or no reading skills. This is where all children can begin to learn to read. By completing the 40 lessons in the Starting Out set, children will learn their first reading skills. This includes learning the sounds and names of letters, reading their first sight words, such as ‘the’, ‘I’, ‘and’, ‘is’ and ‘see’. They will also learn the essential phonic skills needed to read three letter words such as ‘cat’, ‘fan’ and ‘Sam’. Children will then be able to read their first simple stories featuring Sam the Ant.
Maps 5 to 8 – Beginning to Read in The Playground
Step 2 – Beginning to Read in the Playground – builds on skills learned in Step 1 with a focus on short vowel words such as ‘cat’, ‘dog’, ‘ten’, ‘fish’ and ‘duck’ and on building reading skills. Children will learn many more high frequency sight words, build word families and read another 40 books. Some of these books will be nonfiction titles with a focus on building vocabulary in these areas – numbers, facial features, and animals as pets.
Maps 9 to 12 – Building Confidence at The Theme Park
Step 3 – Building Confidence at the Theme Park – covers long vowel words such as ‘cake’, ‘kite’, ‘rain’, ‘cook’, ‘seat’ and ‘cute’. These new phonic patterns are introduced and reinforced so that children can read them fluently and spell them correctly. There is an increased focus on reading for meaning, comprehension and understanding longer words and sentences. Children read 40 new longer books. Some of these books will be nonfiction titles with a focus on building vocabulary in a variety of key areas.
Map 13 – Strengthening Skills at Sandy Bay
The first NEW map of Lessons 121 to 160, these 10 new lessons begin to bridge the gap between Reading Eggs and Reading Eggspress and solidify Grade 2 content. Map 13 covers these phonic sounds/spelling patterns: ‘ar’, ‘au’, ‘ur’, double letters, ‘le’, ‘ear’, ‘ea’ as in head, ‘ue’, compound words, and has a greater focus on multi-syllable words. The new lessons introduce new sounds: digraphs, trigraphs, and language features like past tense and verbs. Every lesson includes an end-of-lesson Skills Quiz with matching reports that clearly show student progress.
Learning Milestones
Across the 130 lessons, your child will be guided through a proven learning journey backed by science to build their reading skills in the right order, at the right pace, from the very start. You’ll be able to see exactly where your child is on their reading journey with Learning Milestones – real progress you can see.