Free Learn to Read Program (120 Step-by-Step Reading Lessons for Beginners)

Free Learn to Read Program

120 step-by-step reading lessons designed to help beginning and struggling readers succeed.

Welcome to our Free Learn to Read Program, featuring 120 step-by-step reading lessons designed to help beginning and struggling readers build confidence one lesson at a time. Whether you're teaching a preschooler, kindergartner, first grader, older struggling reader, English language learner, or adult learning to read, this free program provides structured video lessons, printable worksheets, phonics instruction, sight words, reading practice, and hands-on activities.

Start with Lesson 1 and work through the lessons in order, allowing each new skill to build on the last. Created by experienced reading teachers, this program makes it easy for parents, homeschool families, teachers, tutors, and volunteers to teach reading with confidence—all at no cost.

If you need help modifying the lessons for your student, feel free to reach out at M[email protected].

Free Reading Lessons Online

Free Reading Lesson Number	Sight Words and Phonics Skills Learned
Free Reading Lesson 1 with Worksheets	Good, Morning Capital, lower case Upper case 'G' and 'M’ Concept of word Left to Right Reading
Free Reading Lesson 2 with Worksheets	good, morning Upper case and lower case 'Mm' Typed lower case 'g' Punctuation: Comma Concept of word Left to Right Reading
Free Reading Lesson 3 with Worksheets	See, a, red Punctuation: period Letters: lower case 's', 'e', 'a', 'r', 'd' Lower case typed ‘a’ Phonics: 's' sound (optional) Left to Right Reading Concept of Word
Free Reading Lesson 4 with Worksheets	I Upper case and lower case ‘Rr’ Review words: see, a, red Review: period Concept of word
Free Reading Lesson 5 with Worksheets	Yellow Upper case and lower case ‘Yy’ Review: word I period, comma Concept of word

Day 6	one	Upper case and lower case ‘O’ Word “1” and number “1” are the same Associate picture clues and Text Structure of Complete Sentence Comprehension Concept of Word
Day 7	blue	Upper case and lower case 'b' Sound 'b' Associate picture clues and text Comprehension Concept of word
Day 8	the	Poetic text Using poetic expression Counting (Times you see the word the, etc ..) Associate picture clues and text Comprehension Concept of word
Day 9	green	Punctuation: question mark Read 'questions' with expression Phonics: ‘g’ sound Counting (Times do you see the word 'green', etc ..) Associate picture clues and text
Day 10	go	's' at end of a word Phonics: 's' sound at end of a word More emphasis on written and printed g, g
Day 11	bear	Review upper and lower case 'Bb' Phonics: Review 'b' and 'g' sound Punctuation: Exclamation Point, Names start with a capital letter
Day 12	two	Difference between the word 'two', and the number '2' Plural -'s' at end of a noun
Day 13	orange	Associate picture clues and text
Day 14	brown, rabbit	"s" as plural
Day 15	is, not	Review: Lower and upper case letters ‘i', I’ Review: Lower and upper case letters ‘r, R’ Phonics: Review 'b' and 'r' sound
Day 16	up, down	Opposites Lower and upper case: 'uU' and 'nN'. Different meanings of the words 'up' Rhyming: brown, down
Day 17	and	'and' as a connecting word Phonics: short 'a' opposites Rhyming: brown, down
Day 18	black, cat	Punctuation: quotation marks Phonics: short 'a' Phonics 'b' sound Rhyming: brown, down
Day 19	it, bird	Upper case and lower case 'Ii' Review: quotation marks Phonics: short 'a' Phonics 'b' sound
Day 20	big, little	Opposites Upper and lower case 'LI' Review: quotation marks Phonics: 'b' sound Associate picture clues and text
Day 21	run	Phonics: 'r' sound Associate picture clues and text
Day 22	said	'said' to introduce a quote Associate picture clues and text
Day 23	can, white	Associate picture clues and text Upper and lower case 'Cc'
Day 24	boy, dog	Upper and lower case 'Dd' Upper and lower case ‘Bb’ Phonics: 'd' sound Associate picture clues and text
Day 25	play, three	Number words: one, two, three 'said' at the end of a quote Associate picture clues and text
Day 26	come, here	Identifying a quote
Day 2 7	we, ball, all	“all” rhyming word
Day 28	me, four	Rhyming Upper and lower case ‘Ff’ Phonics ‘f’ sound
Day 29	for	Homonyms: 'for', 'four' Rhyming Associate picture clues and text Phonics: 'f' sound
Day 30	girl, mother	Review: Homonyms:'for', 'four' Review: Upper I lower case 'Gg', 'Mm' Review: Phonics: 'g' sound Review: quotation marks Review: comma
Day 31	you, help	sound “y” as a consonant
Day 32	out, in	Opposites Phonics: short “Ii” sounds
Day 33	yes	Opposite: ‘yes’ and ‘no’
Day 34	ride, car	Using context to read a new word
Day 35	no, store	sound “n” Using context to read a new word Deciding the speaker from the context
Day 36	get, box	Using context to read a new word Deciding the speaker from context
Day 37	away, to	Phonics: 't' sound Upper and lower case 'Tt' Difference between 'to' and 'two' Using context to read a new word Deciding the speaker from context Associate picture clues and text
Day 38	make, cake	Phonics: vowel, long 'a', magic 'e' Rhyming: 'ake' ending words Upper and lower case 'Cc' Using context to read a new word Deciding the speaker from context
Day 39	he, to	Homonyms: to, two, too Use of 'he', 'one' 'me', 'it' as pronoun Upper and lower case 'Hh' Deciding the speaker from context
Day 40	man, after	Phonics: ‘m’ sound Upper and lower case ‘Mm’ Using Context to read a new word AN rhyming g
Day 41	five, letters	Phonics: vowel, long 'i', magic 'e' Rhyming: 'an' ending words Upper and lower case 'LI' Using context to read a new word Deciding the speaker Associate picture clues and text
Day 42	do, what	Words that can signal 'questions' Upper and lower case 'Dd', 'Ww'
Day 43	him, jump	Use of 'him' and 'he', as pronouns Upper and lower case 'Jj', 'Hh
Day 44	into, cannot	compound words
Day 45	Father, fish, boat	oa -to vowels go walking
Day 4 6	look, she	Upper and lower case ‘Ll’ Phonics: 'l'sound
Day 4 7	like	Review: Phonics magic ‘e’, long ‘i’ Review: number words through ‘five’ Review: Upper and lower case ‘Ll’ Review: Phonics ‘l’ sound Review: ‘she’, ‘you’ as a pronoun Deciding the speaker from the context Review: quotation marks, reading with expression
Day 48	am, water, going	“ing” ending 'I' as a pronoun am word ending
Day 4 9	call	Phonics: 'c/k' sound Review: 'all' ending words k
Day 50	with, my, puppy	Review: Phonics: 'c/k' sound Review: 'all' ending words Review: '·ing' as word ending Review: 'I', 'you', 'we', as a pronoun Review: deciding the speaker Review:· quotation marks Reading with expression Associate picture clues and text
Day 51	want, grass	sound “w” Upper and lower case 'Ww' ”
Day 52	without, will, find	Review: compound words Review: Phonics: 'w' sound Review: Upper and lower case 'Ww' Review: 'we', 'you', as a pronoun Review: deciding the speaker Review: quotation marks Reading with expression Associate picture clues and text
Day 53	horse, have, her	Phonics: 'h' sound Upper and lower case 'Hh' 'her', as a pronoun
Day 54	are, pony, if	Review: Phonics: 'h' sound Review: 's' at end of a word Review: Upper and lower case 'Hh' ‘her', as a pronoun
Day 5 5	your, on	Review: Phonics: 'y' as a consonant Review: 'ing' at end of a word Review: Upper and lower case 'Yy' Review: pronouns Review: deciding the speaker Review: quotation marks Reading with expression Associate picture clues and text
Day 56	pick, so, funny, six	Phonics: short 'i' sound Phonics: 'x' sound at end of a word
Day 57	this, how, put, coat	'th' in 'the' and 'this'
Day 58	now, ask, much	Phonics: 'ow' as in 'cow' rhyming
Day 59	wow, there	Apostrophe 's' to express possessive
Day 60	that, old, house	Phonics: 'p' sound
Day 61	tell, us, paper	sound “p”
Day 62	they, work, men
Day 63	think, children, live	Two sounds of 'th' Short and Iong 'i' in 'Iive' and 'Iive' Superlative form of 'so', 'sooo'
Day 64	some, hill, first	Rhyming: 'ill' ending words Rhyming: 'some', 'come'
Day 65	eat, be, at	Rhyming: 'at' ending words Rhyming: 'me', 'we', 'be'
Day 66	did, show, know	Phonics: 'ow' as 'o' sound Phonics: Silent 'k' in 'kn'
Day 67	was, but, who	'who', as a question word
Day 68	by, them, why	Phonics: vowel 'y' as 'i' 'why', as a question word
Day 69	saw, must, stop, just, from	Phonics: 'j' sound Phonics: 'ust' ending rhyming words Capital and lower case 'Jj'
Day 7 0	under, tree, our, airplane, of	Phonics: 'ee' ending rhyming words Capital and lower case 'Uu'
Day 71	before, cut	Phonics: short 'u' ”
Day 72	where, when, fly	Question words 'w' and 'wh' sounds Rhyming 'fly', 'by', 'why', 'my'
Day 73	let, take, long, grow
Day 74	use, wood, fire, cold	Rhyming: 'good', 'wood' Vowel long U sound
Day 75	walk, about, then, around	“ou”
Day 76	soon, many, made, round	Phonics: 'oo' as in 'too.'
Day 77	today, over, sleep	Phonics and rhyming: 'ay' words ”
Day 78	his, ten, farm, days, grandmother, grandfather
Day 79	myself, drink, milk, cow	Punctuation: apostrophe Phonics: 'dr' blend
Day 80	pretty, give, farmer, chickens	Phonics: 'er' ending g
Day 81	an, basket, barn, hen, egg	Phonics: short 'e' Phonics: rhyming 'en' words.
Day 82	does, small, hold, wagon
Day 83	fast, hurt, corn, rain	Phonics: Two vowels 'walking' Phonics: 'or' sound Phonics: 'ur' sound Phonics rule: 'two vowels together'
Day 84	came, as, because, sheep, ducks	Phonics: Vowel long 'e' Phonics: 'ing', drop magic 'e' Phonics: 'sh' sound
Day 85	could, got	Phonics: Vowel short 'o'
Day 86	both, fall, ran, leg
Day 87	their, better, hand
Day 88	gave, kitten, home, feet, nose	Phonics: Vowel long 'o' ”
Day 89	say, every, school
Day 90	were, bring, bus
Day 9 1	went
D ay 9 2	please, sit, right, has	Rhyming: 'ight' words
Day 93	back, may, only	Phonics: 'ck'
Day 94	read, pick, write, or, draw, book	Phonics: 'wr' sound Compare Words: 'right', 'write'
Day 95	don’t, wish, these, bed	Contraction: don't Punctuation: apostrophe Rhyming: 'red', 'bed Phonics: 'ed' ending
Day 96	laugh, never, new
Day 97	well, been, woud, goes, it’s	Phonics: contraction, 'it's'
Day 98	light, off, keep, again	“ight”
Day 99	ate, done, full
Day 100	always, buy, carry, train, birthday, party
Day 101	very, far, any, money, toys	sound “v” Phonics: Vowel 'y' as 'e' ”
Day 102	best, thank, Dad, Mom, doll, baby	vowel, “y” as “e”
Day 103	sing, open, wash, clean, hands	Phonics: 'z' sound 'es' ending after an 'x'
Day 104	pull, those, table, floor	sound “z”
Day 105	start, watch, chair
Day 106	shall, warm, hot, together, snow, cap
Day 107	try, own, head
Day 108	once, upon, time, eight, monkey, tail, elephant	sound “ph” as “f”
Day 109	kind, seven	Rhyming: 'find', 'kind' 'en' as ending
Day 110	found, which, other, shoes	Rhyming: 'Mother', 'other' 'es' as ending
Day 111	let’s, brother, teacher, flower, garden	Contraction: 'let's' Rhyming: 'other', 'mother', 'brother'
Day 112	picture, stick, sun, sister, squirrel, nest, top	Phonics: 'qu' sound and letter 'q' Review: contraction, 'let's'
Day 113	can’t	contraction
Day 114	bread, street, people, friend, door, window
Day 115	didn’t, I’ll, you’ll	contractions
Day 116	thing, eye, apple, ring, Doctor	Review: long 'o' sound Review: 'ight' rhyming words Review: word endings Review: comma Review: contractions
Day 117	thought, nice, talk, everything	Phonics: 'c' as 'sss', 'ce', 'ci', 'cy'
Day 118	bell, it’ll, Grandman, love, where’s, brought	contraction Rhyming 'thought', 'brought' n
Day 119	road, night
Day 120