Reading, for children who cannot read the question yet
Ollie reads every question, every option and every result out loud. That is the whole reason a five-year-old can use this app with nobody sitting beside them.
Ollie reads everything, every time
A reading app that assumes a child can read is a reading app for children who do not need it. So nothing here depends on reading the screen: Ollie says the question, says each of the four options, and says what happened. Tapping the question plays it again, and the voice can be slowed down from the parent area.
That matters on the maths path too, and more than it sounds: a four-year-old can do number work long before they can read a word problem.
The skills, unit by unit
In the United States, Grade 2, reading is 14 skills in three units; in England, the reading path runs from Reception to Year 4.
- ① Sounds and short wordsLetter sounds, blending them, and the short words they make.
- ② Long vowels and syllablesThe long vowel patterns, the common digraphs, and breaking a longer word into parts.
- ③ What words meanMeaning from a sentence, words that belong together, and the question after a short passage.
Why there is no reading path in your language yet
Reading is the language. English phonics teaches English sounds and English spellings; it does not make a Dutch or a Portuguese child a better reader of Dutch or Portuguese. Handing them English phonics under the word “reading” would not be practice, it would be a different subject with the wrong label on it.
So the reading path is offered only where the language we have built is the language your child is learning to read — today, English. Maths stands in across countries because number work genuinely carries over. Reading never will, so it waits.
Hear the first question out loud.
Start 7 days freeThe reading path is English, and so are the app’s own screens.