A reading program that arrives on paper, one sound a week.

Your child learns one sound each week and reads only words built from the sounds they already have. Nothing on the page is a guess. Five short days, twenty quiet minutes, no app and no login.

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The sample is Week 6, unedited — the week your child reads their first whole story.

The order is the product

s a t p i n

That is where the sequence starts, and it is not alphabetical. Those six letters build roughly twenty real words. The first six letters of the alphabet build eight. A vowel arrives immediately, so words are possible in the first fortnight rather than the third month.

The alphabet also teaches b and d two letters apart. They are the pair children most often confuse — same circle, same stick, mirrored. Here they are nine weeks apart, on purpose: d in week 8, b in week 17.

If you want the long version of that argument, it is written up in Why the alphabet is the wrong order.

What the first six weeks actually look like

Week	What lands
Week 1	The sound /s/. Tracing, and sorting pictures by their first sound.
Week 2	The sound /a/. A vowel this early is what makes everything after it possible.
Week 3	The sound /t/ — and the first real word your child reads on their own: sat.
Week 4	The sound /p/. The first sentence.
Week 5	The sound /i/. Word chains — change one sound, get a new word.
Week 6	The sound /n/, and a whole story they read to you. That is the sample above.

Twelve weeks are written, verified and typeset, and the sequence continues from there through Grade 2. Your child starts at Week 1 whenever you join — the weeks follow your child, not the calendar.

Every word is machine-checked. A decodable page is only decodable if every word on it can be sounded out with the letters taught so far. That is not something a proofreader can hold in their head. An adult reads ship without noticing that sh is a single sound their child has not met yet — so the child sounds it out letter by letter and gets nothing.

So the check is code, not a person. Each page is parsed into sounds and refused if a single word is out of sequence. A week that breaks the rule fails the build and never gets written, rather than reaching your kitchen table.

What arrives, and when

Five days, one page each. Fifteen to twenty minutes. Five short days beat one long session.
A parent page. One sheet, for you: how to say this week's sound correctly, which words are heart words, and what is coming next week.
Letter size, print-ready. It lands Sunday morning. You print it and it is done.
No screens. No app, no login for the child, nothing to charge.

Why it stops at Grade 2

Before roughly Grade 3, children are learning to read. After it, they are reading to learn — comprehension work that competes with what school already assigns. We would rather do the first job properly than the second one thinly.

Common questions

My child's school teaches letters alphabetically. Does this conflict?

No, and there is no need to fight the school. Letter-of-the-week builds letter recognition, which is a real and separate skill. What it often skips is systematic blending, and that is the part worth adding at home. The two are additive.

My child is in Grade 1 or 2 already. Do they start at Week 1?

Yes, and that is deliberate. The sequence is the product; starting in the middle of it means reading words built from sounds that were never taught. Older children move through the early weeks quickly — a week that is easy is a week that takes ten minutes, not twenty.

Can I take reading without math?

Yes. Reading is $29/month per child on its own. If you take both, they arrive in the same Sunday envelope.

I already subscribe for math. How do I add reading?

From your account page — each child on your roster has an Add Reading button. It adds $29/month for that child and reading starts at Week 1 the following Sunday.

What is a heart word?

The few words that cannot be sounded out yet — the, is, a — and have to be known by sight. They are named on the parent page each week so you know which ones to help with. Everything else on the page can be sounded out, so if your child is guessing from pictures, cover them.

How do I cancel?

One click from your account page. There is a 7-day free trial before the first charge.

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