Step by Steppe: Designing a Culturally Grounded Decodable Story Programme for Struggling Young Readers of English in Kazakhstan
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: the article describes the design of «Step by Steppe», a remedial English reading programme for Grade 4–5 learners in Kazakhstan who read below the level expected by the curriculum. The programme consists of 24 lessons: a pre-test, ten chapters, a mid-test, eleven chapters and a post-test. Its 21 chapters form one continuous story about a Kazakhstani girl, Masaty, and her black cat Babai, who travel across the country to the grandmother's village for Nauryz. Each chapter teaches one grapheme–phoneme pattern and is written only from patterns taught before or in that chapter, this was checked word by word. The design combines systematic phonics, teacher-modelled and repeated reading, comprehension tasks, the learners' home languages (Kazakh and Russian) and the values of the national upbringing programme. The article presents the theoretical basis, the design principles, the scope and sequence, the lesson routine and a parallel-form assessment battery, and outlines a plan for piloting the programme.
Source: Вестник науки
DOI: 10.68367/33668
Author: Zh.Zh. Tuyakbayeva
Language: Russian
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7225080569