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Preschool and kindergarten · ages 2½ to 5

Teach your child to read in ten minutes a day.

Lessons you can do at home together, and stories your child can read from start to finish, using only the sounds they've learned.

Free to join, no commitment. Unsubscribe any time. We only ask for your email.

Founding families

$50 $30 a month

The first 500 families on the waitlist pay $30 for as long as they stay subscribed.

Subscribe within 30 days of launch (planned early 2027) to claim it. Canceling ends it.

The science, briefly

Built on how children learn to read.

Four of the best-supported ideas in reading research.

Systematic phonics

A core part of the science of reading: letter sounds taught one at a time, simple to hard, so your child can sound out every word on the page.

Direct instruction

Show it and say it together. Then your child tries. Short, scripted steps help your child get it right most of the time.

Mastery learning

Your child moves to a new sound only after mastering the current ones, so gaps don't pile up.

Spaced review

Each sound comes back just before your child would forget it. The timing adjusts to them.

How it works

A lesson or a story.
Ten minutes. Every day.

Side by side on the couch. Each day, the app picks a lesson or a story, whichever your child needs next.

1

Learn

On lesson days, you introduce one new sound with a short script. You show it and say it together, and then your child says it alone.

2

Read

On story days, the app writes a brand-new decodable story using only the sounds your child knows, so they can sound it out and read it on their own.

3

Remember

The app tracks every sound your child has learned. New sounds wait until your child has mastered the current ones, and old sounds come back right before they would fade.

Made for parents, on purpose

You're the teacher.

Little kids learn best from the person they love most, and your child wants to please you far more than any app. So we guide you: what to say and when. If your child has not learned a sound yet, the lesson teaches it again, and the script tells you how.

  • No coins
  • No streaks
  • No autoplay
  • No cartoon rewards
  • No microphone

The time together is the reward.

Why your child will want to read with you

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