Are you a new adult reader or a new reading coach?
We have 56 progressive, interactive literacy learning modules.
Guided Reading Journey is a free adult literacy practice site with audio support. Take your time—there's real depth to explore. Each lesson focuses on a small set of English sounds, using carefully selected words and short activities that build reading confidence step by step.
Guided Reading Journey is an independently created literacy resource, developed through years of volunteer effort to support adult learners and the volunteers, tutors, friends, and family members who work alongside them. Practice on your own, learn with someone you trust, or meet with a coach online. (See our Coach's Guide) It’s free to use — no sign-ups, no tracking, no ads. Just tools and encouragement.
Choose a free adult reading lesson below to get started. 
This space is yours to explore.
I'm glad you found your way here.
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Content
We offer 56 progressive, interactive, adult learning modules that begin with basic sounds and build toward complex vowel blends and reading fluency. Every exercise can be printed for practice, and each lesson includes a printable workbook option.
Stories and essays have been crafted to provide gentle connection to everyday life and the world around us. Many of the stories are centered around our fictional family, the Ampletons.
For literacy programs and tutors
Guidedreadingjourney.com can be used as a supplement in 1:1 tutoring or small-group practice. Lessons include audio support, interactive exercises, mini-dictionaries, discussion prompts, printable materials, literacy extension activities, and coach-friendly guides.
Every lesson is like a packed suitcase—you don't need to unpack it all at once. Open it and choose the activities that best fit your learner today.
Expand a drill over multiple sessions—move at a pace that works for you and your learner. These lessons are not a fixed program. The materials are flexible and can be adapted, combined, or repeated as needed. The drills get progressively more challenging.
Download printable workbooks and guides to work offline.
These lessons are built on carefully structured word groupings found in the public domain book The Elementary Spelling Book (1880), Noah Webster L.L.D, originally published by GEORGE AND CHARLES MERRIAM. The original text presents word lists and read-aloud sentences. On this site, those groupings have been adapted into a modern, self-study format with audio support, dynamic interactive exercises, and updated example sentences.
You can find this public domain book at the Internet Archive 
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