How to Teach Your Child to Read in 120 Lessons, Free Homeschool Curriculum, Full PDF Download Link, Flip-Through

You’re looking for the best reading curriculum to teach your child how to read at home and Amazon is filled with thousands of workbooks, every parent has different advice, and the choices are honestly super overwhelming.  

No worries. I’ve been there. I’m Hannah, a homeschool mom and an English teacher and I’ve been right where you’ve been. To tell the truth? None of the options were very good. So I made the best research-based reading curriculum out there. It worked super well in my home and for families I shared it with. So well in fact that I think it can help solve the literacy crisis in the United States.

On this page I’m going to tell you everything about my curriculum and how to use it.

By the way – did I mention it’s FREE? Yeah. Really.

Let’s jump right in.

What is How to Teach Your Child to Read in 120 Lessons?

This is a simple reading guide designed for parents who want to teach their kids to read at home. It takes children who have never read a word before to progress to be able to read ANYTHING in just a few months. This is done with the power of phonics, one-to-one parent interaction, and daily read alouds to build strong vocabulary. In just 120 lessons your child will be able to read ANYTHING.

Hannah Ward dropping off the book in a local Little Free Library

It was professionally designed by Hannah Ward, a mother and an English teacher who has taught students from preschool to the university level. She's a TESOL International Association certified English instructor who holds an M.Ed. in Education Technology and Instructional Design where she dual specialized as an adult and K-12 learning experience designer, and an M.S. in Management and Leadership with a focus on global leadership education.

You can download the individual lessons for free here.

Download the complete high-quality PDF here at my Actual Reading curriculum shop.

Or purchase the paperback book here on Amazon.

How do you use How to Teach Your Child to Read in 120 Lessons?

How to Teach Your Child to Read in 120 Lessons was designed to be the easiest and most effective to use reading curriculum for parents and children ever. If you can read, you can teach your child how to read. Not only is it simple – but it’s fun! Here’s how it works. There are only two steps each day.

1. Complete one phonics page (takes less than 10 minutes each day!)

2. Read aloud with your child (any book you want!)

Wait? That’s it?

Yeah. That’s seriously it!

Want to see inside?

 You can download the individual lessons for free here.

 Download the entire PDF here at my Actual Reading curriculum shop.

 Or purchase the paperback book here on Amazon.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Question: Does this curriculum work for students with Dyslexia, Autism, or ADHD?

YES. How to Teach Your Child to Read in 120 Lessons was specifically designed with all of the strongest recommended accommodations for student with Dyslexia, Autism, ADHD, and vision difficulties already built into the curriculum. This is because these accommodations harm no students in their learning journey and are essential for some students. We have had many success stories from families whose children have Dyslexia, Autism, and/or ADHD that no other program worked with that are now flying in reading after working through How to Teach Your Child to Read in 120 Lessons.

Question: Why do you give the lessons away for free? Foundational learning is far too important to put behind a paywall. This is my fulltime job and people that pay for my curriculum mean the world to me, but I work with families all over the world and I know not everyone can pay yet desperately want to teach their kids. All children deserve the best learning materials no matter what their family's financial means are. I provide free curriculum and support to all families as a personal life mission.

Question: I'm not a teacher. Can I do this? You are your child's first, best, and most important teacher. You've already taught them so many things. You can teach them this too. Please don't doubt yourself. I know that you can do this. If you can read, you can teach your child how to read.

Question: How old should children be when they start the program?

Starting How to Teach Your Child to Read in 120 Lessons is not based on age but is instead based on readiness signs. Here is the page that outlines the readiness signs that your child should show before starting the program:

Can I see a flip-through of the curriculum?

Sure! This flip-through shows the full PDF version of the curriculum that has been printed and coil-bound. It gives you an idea of the length of the lessons and the variety that you'll see in the curriculum.

What are the differences between the versions of the curriculum?

First of all, you're getting the same curriculum no matter which version you go with. The only difference is the packaging.

You can order a paperback version of the book from Amazon if you want a physical copy that you don't want to print yourself that's shipped right to your house.

You can purchase a high-resolution PDF copy of the curriculum from my Actual Reading curriculum website if you want to download all of the lessons digitally in one easy download at the highest possible resolution.

You can download each set of daily lessons and parent instructions bundled together one-by-one here at this website in a compressed PDF form. I compressed them and put them into smaller download sizes so that they could be stored easily on the website and could be accessible to download for families in areas with internet difficulties. I love giving books away in Little Free Libraries here locally and if I had the means to do that for everyone in the world with physical books - I would! As it stands, this is the best way I've found to make sure this curriculum can get out to as many families that need it as possible.

Happy learning,

Hannah Ward