Why It Works

With Stepping Stones Together, the Reader is Free to Choose!

Teaching is more effective when kids enjoy the process and feel a connection to the materials. Our reading program offers more themes, more subjects, and more ways to engage beginning readers than most other literacy programs, making it easy to find books that will capture your young reader’s attention. We provide an abundance of popular children’s story themes for you to select from to make your child’s beginning reading experience fun.

What Makes This Program Successful?

High-Frequency Words

The Stepping Stones Together program focuses on popular children’s themed stories, which utilize 220 high-frequency words and 95 nouns. Reading experts agree that children need to learn these words in order to become beginning readers.

Studies indicate that these high-frequency words make up between 58-75% of all words in children’s books. Early readers often reach frustration thresholds before learning how to read due to their struggle with high-frequency words. Research suggests that in order to master beginning reading skills, these words need to be learned and practiced in an enjoyable and high-interest context.

Text Illustration Support 

Illustrations have long been used to create a stronger link between printed words and meaning. We link useful illustrations to the text to enable new readers to be highly successful. 

Thoughtful Spacing 

The program deliberately uses large font sizes and more spacing between words to provide children the additional support they need to develop automatic print awareness. This helps establish some of the most basic skills, such as:

• Reading is done from left to right
• Words are made up of letters that go together
• There are spaces between words

Coloring Books 

Our program intentionally uses black and white illustrations to provide children with a personal connection to each story, allowing them to bring their own color to the tales while also encouraging creative thinking and motor skills.

Incentive Program 

We all appreciate when our efforts are recognized. Stepping Stones Together believes children deserve recognition for being brave readers! 

We provide parents with a personalized behavior chart to record their child’s daily reading progress. It is conveniently located on every personalized homepage. Parents should print out this chart to record daily progress. Additionally, a certificate will become available to print upon completion of a series.

Additional Support

Stepping Stones Together knows that your child will fall in love with our uniquely crafted thematic characters. We encourage you to peruse our games, which include easy to use instructions to help your child gain speed on their road to early reading success! These games can be completed whenever time is available, and an interest is there.

Start Improving Your Child’s Reading Skills Today

There’s one more element that makes Stepping Stones Together so successful – our plan is easy to use, and you can get started today for free. We offer:

• Free tutorials
• A free trial membership
• Affordable membership options

Start your child on the path to a lifetime of learning and achievement with Stepping Stones Together.