Teach Your Child to Read
Story Hour Academy is a comprehensive, free reading curriculum that helps students master beginning reading skills in 112 online lessons. Its step-by-step approach includes pretests, engaging exercises, decodable reading, classic literature, and mastery checks.
Curriculum Features
Systematic Instruction
Our carefully structured and fully transparent sequence of lessons teaches students the decoding skills they need to begin reading independently.
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Pretests
Each unit begins with a pretest that provides immediate feedback, which students can use to determine which lessons in the unit to skip and which to study.
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Mastery Tests
A mastery test at the end of each unit ensures that students are mastering beginning reading knowledge before moving on. These checks provide clear evidence of progress.
View a Mastery Test
Interactive Exercises
Engaging online activities reinforce learning through practice. Our interactive exercises reinforce the concepts that students are learning.
Try a Spelling Exercise
Decodable Reading Material
Lessons include materials where students can practice reading words with only the phonograms that they have been taught.
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Literature Selections
Enjoy carefully chosen classic literature. In early lessons, students will need to be read to. Soon, they will be reading the selections on their own.
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Start your reading journey today with our self-paced, systematic curriculum. It's completely free and accessible anytime.
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