Learn to read
Stories they can sound out
Learn-to-read mode writes with words your child can decode at their phonics phase and marks the sounds they're learning on the page.
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Phases 2 to 5
What each phase sounds like
Phase 2 (age 4-5)
Simple words built from single letters, like sat, pin and mum.
Phase 3 (age 4-5)
Two and three letters making one sound, like sh, ch, ai and igh.
Phase 4 (age 5)
Words with clusters of consonants, like stop, milk and frog.
Phase 5 (age 5-6)
New ways to spell sounds they know, and split digraphs like a-e.
Chapter 1
Words at their phase
Pick your child's phase when you make the story, and it is written with words they can decode, plus the tricky words for that phase.
- Aims for at least 90% decodable words in every story
- UK Letters and Sounds, US Common Core or the Australian Curriculum
- Choose the phase for each story, so it can move up with them
Chapter 2
A story they can read to you
Children feel proud when they can read a whole story on their own, and prouder still when it's about them.
- Sounds and tricky words marked on the page
- Their own characters can star too
Questions parents ask
- Which phonics phases do you cover?
- Phases 2 to 5 of UK Letters and Sounds, from Reception to Year 1. US Common Core and Australian Curriculum levels map onto the same phases.
- How do you keep the words decodable?
- Each phase has its own word list. We check every story against it and rewrite stories that fall short of the target.
- Can I change my child's phase?
- Yes. You pick the phase each time you make a story.
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