Rooted’s Scope & Sequence for Youth Ministry Bible Teaching

As youth ministers approach the fall semester, we know it’s a busy time for planning youth group and Sunday school teaching content. Rooted’s Bible-based curriculum can help! We encourage you to consider using our Scope and Sequence, which lays out a comprehensive plan for teaching the Bible. Stay tuned for more curriculum previews coming this week, or browse all available offerings on Rooted Reservoir, including studies on 28+ books of the Bible.

Why use a Scope & Sequence?

We know that for youth ministers, it can be a challenge to know what you’re going to teach to your students. What book do you want to teach through? When should you do it? What should you be planning to teach next? To help answer these questions, Rooted has developed a full scope and sequence package using Rooted’s Bible-based curriculum. This package is designed to give you a roadmap for teaching the Bible to your students all throughout their middle and high school years. 

Along with the Scope & Sequence Package, we have created two separate plans detailing which books to use for each grade level. We have the Chronological Plan, which lays out the books of the Bible in chronological order, and the Developmental Stage Plan, which orders the books based on the mental, emotional and spiritual development at each grade level. You can view both plans for free by downloading our Scope & Sequence PDF below.

With these scope and sequences, our hope is that: 

• You, the youth minister, no longer have to worry about what you are going to teach and when. We want to take that worry off your shoulders and offer you a biblically comprehensive plan for christian education. Using these plans ensures you that you have a complete teaching plan for the entirety of 6-12th grade. 
• We want your students to be exposed to as much Scripture as possible throughout their time in youth group. We have designed these plans to offer your students a wide variety of God’s Word during their middle and high school years. 
• These plans can be used to benefit your entire church and make for more natural at-home discipleship. For example, if your head pastor knows the high schoolers will be studying John this semester, he can plan to teach an adult Sunday school class on John, creating an opportunity for both parent and child to discuss John together.