A guided phonics climb for young readers. Your child hears each sound, says it out loud, writes it and reads it, and the app listens. You see exactly which sounds are mastered.
Register to use it with your kidsKeep me posted
Ask to join the free pilot. We approve a small group of families at a time, by hand.
Up to 10 per account. Start at the beginning, pick a sound, or run the short placement check.
Your child does today’s lesson on a tablet. You see which sounds are mastered, in progress or need work.
See a letter, say its sound. Hear a sound, write the letter. Read words made of sounds already learned.
Discover it in words, see how the mouth makes it, then learn its keyword picture and gesture.
Watch the letter being formed, then trace it in print and in script.
Hear a word and spell it. See a word and read it out loud. The app listens.
A short story with the words highlighted as they are read, then a look back at today.
Keyword pictures for the first four sounds, as they appear in the app. Each comes with a gesture.
Speech recognition checks each spoken sound and word. If it can’t hear your child, that never counts as wrong.
A picture shows where the lips and tongue go, the way an Orton-Gillingham teacher would show it.
Every new sound comes with letter formation, traced on the screen.
Every one of the 71 sounds, marked mastered, in progress or needs work, for each child.
He needed to be taught the ‘sound / symbol’ connection in direct instruction.
Dorothy Bokor is a former special education teacher, educational administrator and adjunct professor who trained with Nina Traub, author of Recipe for Reading.
She used the Orton-Gillingham approach to teach her son, who has dyslexia. Years later, mother and son built Climbing With Phonics together.
The app follows her 71-sound sequence and plays her own recorded sounds.
PLACEHOLDER: Background as stated on easyphonicsstore.com/about. Confirm the wording with Dorothy before publishing.
The app is brand new and hasn’t been used by real children outside testing yet. So it’s free while we test it with a small group of families. You tell us what breaks, and we fix it.
Founding families: PLACEHOLDER: founding price or discount, not decided
Register to use it with your kidsChildren learning to read, built first for about ages 5–7, and older beginning readers who need the sounds taught directly. PLACEHOLDER: final age range
Nothing during the pilot, and no card is taken. If it becomes a paid monthly plan, you’ll hear first by email, with time to decide. PLACEHOLDER: price
Not yet, and we won’t pretend to. The pilot is how we find out. We’ll share what we learn honestly.
Spoken answers are sent to Microsoft Azure to be scored. Keeping recordings is off unless you choose it. You agree to this before adding a child.
A first name or nickname, grade and lesson progress. We don’t ask for a birthday, school or photo.
It follows Dorothy Bokor’s Orton-Gillingham-based sequence: explicit sound–symbol teaching, multisensory steps (see, hear, say, write) and daily review.
A tablet with a microphone and a web browser. PLACEHOLDER: confirm devices, e.g. iPad, Android, Fire
Launch news and big changes only. Adults only. You confirm by email first.
Keep me postedMock form: it isn’t connected and sends nothing. The button opens the “Leave email” mockup. What we keep.