Before Reading

Rabbit Hole Learning's Learning to Reading is a structured, play-based early literacy curriculum for children ages 3–6(ish). It follows the science of reading. It builds skills in the order children's brains are generally ready to receive them, starting with sound awareness and ending with letter-sound knowledge. Each unit is flexible and designed to be taught without any special training or materials.

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Get Started Everything you need to hit the ground running. Before you open a single lesson, read through this section to understand how the program...

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Unit 1: Phonological Awareness and Prewriting

Children begin by tuning their ears to the sounds around them. Through listening games, sound discrimination, and sequencing activities,...

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Unit 2: Playing with Rhymes + Prewriting

Rhyme makes language feel like play and it's also an important skill for learning to read. This unit explores rhyme recognition, rhyme...

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Unit 3 Syllables + Prewriting Skills

Children learn to hear the "beats" inside words, starting with easy compound words and building toward blending, segmenting, and counting...

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Unit 4: The Alphabetic Principal + Learning Your Name

The program culminates in the big idea: letters represent sounds. Children explore letters in the world around them, learn to recognize...

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Unit 5: Getting Ready A-J + Uppercase Letters (coming soon!)

Based on UFLI's Getting Ready sequence, this optional bridge unit prepares children for formal phonics instruction. Learners solidify...

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