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You can generate a PDF of every Unit, even if you have customized the curriculum. We love our app, but we value options too. Print it out, or use it on your own PDF software.

The original Blue, Green, and Red years of The Journey serve as your starting point when customizing your Journey curriculum in the app.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

The Answer and Life Issues booklets are part of the original curriculum and are not included in this purchase. If you are using the original Blue, Green, or Red, you will want to use these each year as your group becomes more missional. You can purchase them using the links provided.

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A one-year User License is $35.

Journey in Print

Are you looking for the original, spiral-bound Journeys? Remember, if you just like paper and pencil you can download and print custom Journeys using The Journey Online . Still want the original Journey? Click the button below.

Note: The original Journey is also available as a PDF in Chinese or Spanish.

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Books and Media

Discipleship Resources

The journey.

A Gospel Centered Discipleship Resource

The Journey is a gospel centered discipleship resource, designed to help a disciple maker develop mature and equipped followers of Christ, who will be able to do the same with others.

It has been designed and proven to be a resource that is helpful in the context of a local church that is implementing life-on-life missional discipleship.

The Journey: A Resource to Empower Multiplying Movements

Leader resources.

Each weekly unit has an accompanying leader guide, and an equipping video by Randy Pope, walking you through how he uses each lesson in his group.

3 Years of Content

The curriculum is broken out into three years (Red, Blue, or Green) that are available for individual purchase. The three years may be used in any order.

Direct Access

All content is sold and distributed directly through a dedicated website. Digital and print versions available.

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Making & Training Disciples Life-on-Life

In these booklets, Randy Pope gives insights from years of personal disciple making and training experience to show that anyone can make and train disciples in our culture today.

Discipleship Foundations

A five-week guide to discipleship that helps. Learn the foundational principles for life-on-life Missional Discipleship.

The Journey curriculum is a gospel-centered resource for discipleship groups. Three full years of curriculum are available, and each year contains in-depth leader's guides and discipleship content to help disciple makers develop mature followers of Christ, who will be able to do the same with others.

The Answer – Putting An End to the Search for Life Satisfaction

Are you frustrated that your life lacks lasting satisfaction? In "The Answer," Randy Pope invites us to discover a greater purpose and more fulfilled life. This paperback book is an excellent resources for anyone looking to live a more satisfied life.

Life Issues Booklets

The Life Issues booklets are a perfect resource for anyone who is interested in investigating the claims of Christianity or is assisting others through that process. These 4 booklets explore the Gospel of John and are accompanied by helpful readings and questions about the Christian faith.

INsourcing: Bringing Discipleship Back to the Local Church

What are you doing to mature your people. Is it working? Learn how a wide-scale personal discipleship program is attainable for any church.  

A primer for Life-On-Life Discipleship

​Many pastors and leaders are slowly awakening to the reality that current models of ministry just aren’t working the way they had hoped they would. Randy’s journey as a pastor will encourage and invite you to consider the effectiveness and fruitfulness of your own church’s discipleship efforts.

Express Your Faith

Helping Others Investigate Christ

Express Your Faith is a method of effectively sharing your faith developed by Randy Pope, lead teaching pastor of Perimeter Church. Some of the essentials you will learn include how to

Transition a conversation from secular to spiritual

Help your friends investigate Christ

Provide discipleship resources for others to easily investigate Christ

Introduce others to Christ and help them begin to follow Him

Monthly Info Calls

Interested to learn more about our discipleship training process? Our monthly information calls are a convenient way to get your questions answered from the comfort of your home or office.

Calendar of Events

Whether you are part of a current discipleship cohort or looking to learn more, check out all of our live and virtual events to see where you can take the next step.

Discipleship Training Workshops

Exclusively for current discipleship cohorts, our workshops are multi-day gatherings where church leaders dive into deep discipleship lessons, share experiences, and develop their skills.

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Orientation:

Reviewing The Journey Orientation provides an overall understanding of life-on-life missional discipleship (LOLMD) and how Journey discipleship groups are structured and function.

• Journey Orientation

Snapshots of The Journey subscriptions in syllabus-type format – each subscription includes 28 weekly units of course materials, beginning each year with Gospel Living

• 3 Year Overview  (view how all 3 years fit together)
• Blue Year Overview
• Green Year Overview
• Red Year Overview

Assignments:

Detailed listing of all assignments for each Journey subscription

• Blue Year Assignments
• Green Year Assignments
• Red Year Assignments

Weekly Units:

A variety of weekly lessons found in a Journey subscription

• A Commitment to the Local Church  (Blue, Grace Commitments, Unit 3)
• Glory: Why We Embrace Christ  (Blue/Green/Red, Gospel Living, Unit 1)
• God’s Forgiveness  (Red, Knowing God, Unit 3)
• Accepting Suffering, Part I  (Green, Biblical Worldview, Unit 4)
• The Mystery of Marriage  (Green, Healthy Marriage, Unit 2)
• Your Home As A Mission  (Blue, God Honoring Parenting, Unit 3)

Equipping Videos by Randy Pope:

Each week has an equipping video by Journey author Randy Pope.

• Suffering, Part I  (Green, Biblical Worldview, Unit 4)

Audio by Randy Pope:

Some weekly lessons include audio files. Here’s one example:

• Know, Consider, Present (Walking in the Spirit)

The Answer Sample:

Two softback, printed resources ( The Answer and Life Issues) , purchased separately, are part of each Journey study.

• The Answer –  Introduction and Chapter 1

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SOCIAL STUDIES

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Guide young readers to new heights

Learning to read is an excursion into the unknown. It's about meeting challenges head-on and gaining confidence with each victory. Preparing students for this voyage requires a program that lets teachers introduce the right discoveries at the right time. When things begin to line up, you can see confidence start to shine in students' eyes. Journeys is a comprehensive K-6 English language arts program. It provides an instructional system for reading both literature and informational texts, for acquiring foundational reading skills , and for developing mastery of speaking, listening and writing.

Meets new ESSA evidence standards

Promotes deep analysis of authentic texts, reaches 6.7 million students nationwide, a map for students on the path to literacy.

Journeys is built on a deep foundation of scientific research but treats students as young people who need to be encouraged—and to have fun. The result? An engaging learning experience that fits .

Sculpt lesson plans from scaffolded instruction and immerse students in small group sessions that fit like a glove.

Provide opportunities for thoughtful analysis and problem solving using texts that can be read and re-read for multiple purposes.

Prepare students for today’s rigorous standards—and the demands of next-generation assessments—with an approach to instruction that’s based on pioneering academic research.

See what Journeys has in store for your classroom.

Enrich the classroom with tools that foster a love of learning

To build confidence, students need flexible, individualized study. Journeys features complex anchor texts that challenge students, smart lesson plans that let teachers target the needs of all students, and assessments and digital tools that help track classroom progress.

Student Experience

With the right combination of demanding materials and individualized instruction, Journeys offers students the types of challenges needed to mold them into stronger readers. It’s a recipe for the continued growth they’ll need to excel at today’s rigorous assessments, college, and beyond.

Student texts promote deep reading.

Anchor text reading instruction challenges students well beyond their first encounter. A special three-part routine guides students to grasp big ideas, then analyze short passages, and finally undertake independent close reading.

The Student eBook guides students to highlight and make notes about the answers and evidence they are learning to gather.

Trade Books provide a backdrop for project-based learning and give students the opportunity to apply what they have been learning to extended texts.

A wide range of texts meet all students at their level.

Journeys Leveled Readers for Guided Reading, by Irene Fountas, allow students to get individualized practice alongside the core coursework.

Complete solutions for Tier I, II, and III intervention to reinforce skills, scaffold instruction, and teach key foundational skills.

Strategic language support for English learners provides integrated support and scaffolds for every lesson, plus five days of additional instruction to develop language skills, all enabling ELs to engage with core instruction.

Teacher Experience

Students’ confidence grows when the challenges they face are the right size. Teachers should be given the tools to find the right fit. Journeys is designed to be that tool. 

Simple, flexible instruction allows teachers to shine.

Weekly lesson plans make it easy for teachers to design customized lessons, allowing them to spend more time teaching and less time planning.

A realistic approach to pacing allows teachers to focus on depth and rigor, giving the class more time with each text.

Digital tools, like our Interactive Focus Wall and Teacher eBook, simplify planning and enrich instruction.

Practical, powerful assessments keep teachers informed and students prepared.

A comprehensive assessment system (including weekly tests, benchmark assessments, and unit tests) gives teachers the tools they need to monitor student progress.

The online dashboard gives teachers visibility into the progress of their class, providing the insights they need to develop customized lesson plans.

Tech-enhanced questions like drag-and-drop and multi-select allow students to prepare for high-stakes assessment formats.

Journeys scope and sequences are plans teachers can trust. They provide a pedagogical sequence that’s developmentally appropriate and research-based. That way, as students embark on their literacy journey, a path is being charted for the skills and knowledge they’ll need down the road.

Journeys Scope & Sequence: Grades K-6

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Vocabulary readers, flashcards and in-the-moment digital tools fill classrooms with ways to build vocabulary along every step of the journey

Informational texts let students gain mastery over core academic vocabulary as well as domain-specific knowledge and words

Weekly grammar skill targets, supplemented with daily lessons, support students’ understanding of how English works  

A spelling scope and sequence designed by Shane Templeton builds students’ spelling skills

Deep-dives into text analysis give students the foundation they need to interpret texts from multiple angles and form insights

Student books and digital tools prompt students to mark up and annotate texts, allowing understanding to blossom into written form 

Team projects and class conversations guide students to develop critical listening skills and mastery of group communication

Presentations and collaborative work put students in a position to develop social awareness and speaking skills

Giving students confidence to write their own stories

Award-winning texts. A research-based method. There’s a reason it’s used everywhere: Journeys works.

HMH Professional Services helps teachers and administrators prepare to transition to a new program. As you implement Journeys , our team can partner with yours to make sure you start off on the right foot.

Research & Results

Designed using the science of literacy development.

Using the latest research on what makes literacy instruction effective, Journeys was designed to be a system that reliably turns students into confident readers and writers. An impressive collection of scientific studies shows how well it works.

Journeys outfits aspiring readers and writers with the skills they need to scale the challenges of today’s rigorous assessment demands. Explore the research that shows just how high those students can climb.

Journeys: A Research-Based Approach

Grades K - 5

With a "strong evidence" rating from evidenceforessa.org, Journeys has been proven to simply work . And when students’ futures are at stake, results are what matter.

ESSA Evidence Criteria for Journeys

Overview of how Journeys meets ESSA “STRONG” evidence criteria.

Journeys RCT Gold Standard Study

Journeys field study, journeys multi-year quasi-experimental study.

Grades 3 and 5

Journeys Full-Year Research Study

2016 - 2017

To build Journeys , HMH ® worked with the brightest minds in literacy. Assembling a team of authors and consultants across every key area in the field of literacy, we put together an English language arts program that anticipates teaching needs and equips students to succeed.

Dr. MaryEllen Vogt

Distinguished Professor Emerita, Education, California State University, Long Beach; Journeys Program Consultant

Dr. Martha C. Hougen

National Consultant, Presenter, Researcher, and Author

HMH Author and Associate Director, California Reading & Literature Project at UCLA

Erik Palmer

Program Consultant, Into Reading and Into Literature

Dr. Shane Templeton

Foundation Professor Emeritus, Literacy Studies, University of Nevada, Reno; Into Reading Program Author

Dr. Sheila W. Valencia

Professor, Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Washington; Journeys Program Consultant

Irene Fountas

Director, Literacy Collaborative, Lesley University; Language Arts consultant; Journeys Special Consultant

News & Events

The program authors behind Journeys want to continue the conversation about literacy instruction. Read what they’ve been thinking and stay up to date with the latest news and scholarship.

The Bad Habits of Good Readers

Carol Jago, HMH author and program consultant, makes the case for the seemingly bad habits avid readers possess. 

November 30, 2017

Reading Is More Than Fundamental

HMH’s Kristi James shares what ideal literacy engagement in an early childhood classroom would look like and how teachers can realize this goal and promote it outside of their classrooms as well.

Dr. Kristi James

November 20, 2017

A Guide to Engaging, Effective Instruction in Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary

In advance of the final fall 2017 Leadership Talk, literacy thought leader Dr. Shane Templeton previews his presentation on differentiating word study instruction.

October 20, 2017