How the curriculum is organised

The four levels

Learning in PhonicSky is organised into four levels: Seed, Seedling, Sprout, and Bloom. Your child moves through them in order, and each one is designed to build on the one before. They aren't just "more content" as you go, each level is a genuine step up in skill, planned so your child is ready for what comes next.

Here's how we've planned each level:

• Seed is designed to help your child tune into the sounds of language and get comfortable with letters and the sounds they make. It covers phonic awareness, alphabet sounds, letter recognition, and vowel sounds. Seed is free for everyone.
• Seedling is designed to help your child start putting sounds together into words and meet their first real reading. It builds through blends, digraphs, long vowels, early sight words, and first reading practice.
• Sprout is designed to help your child take on the rules and patterns that make English make sense, and to start decoding longer words. It covers spelling rules, tricky letters, syllables, compound words, and more sight words.
• Bloom is designed to help your child handle the more advanced patterns of English and move toward reading comfortably on their own. It covers advanced blends, complex vowel patterns, silent letters, prefixes and suffixes, longer words, and independent reading practice.

Because each level is planned as a step in a sequence, we recommend every child starts at Seed, whatever they already know. You can read more about that on the "Choosing where to start and moving up" page.

Inside a level: modules, chapters, and lessons

Each level is broken down into smaller pieces, so your child always has a clear, manageable next step rather than one big mountain to climb. The structure goes from largest to smallest like this:

• A level (for example, Seed) is the whole stage of the journey.
• A level is made up of modules. A module is a single concept or skill, such as Letter Recognition or Long Vowel Club.
• A module is made up of chapters. Chapters break a concept into logical parts.
• A chapter is made up of lessons. A lesson is the smallest piece, the short, focused activity your child actually plays.

So the full path is: Level → Module → Chapter → Lesson. When your child finishes a lesson, they move to the next lesson in the chapter; when they finish a level's lessons, the next level opens up.

Why it's organised this way

Breaking learning into small lessons does two things. For your child, it keeps each sitting short and achievable, which builds confidence and a daily habit. For you, it makes progress easy to see: you can tell exactly which level, module, chapter, and lesson your child is on at any time from your progress dashboard.