Free phonics resources for teaching kids to read.
43 interactive phonemes, free printables, phonics games, and parent guides — everything to teach synthetic phonics, at home or in the classroom.
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43 Phonemes
Tap any sound to hear it, see the mouth shape, and read 5 example words.
Free Printables
Flashcards, tracing sheets, and cheat sheets — 24+ free PDFs, no email required.
Phonics Blog
Parent guides on teaching reading — age-by-age milestones, spelling rules, routines.
Browser Games
5 free phonics mini-games — no download, no install, play right now.
ABC Phonics — the same 43 sounds, in your pocket.
Everything above, plus 15 mini-games, sing-along songs, and voice-driven scenes your child can play offline. Free to start, no surprise ads.
Built on the method UK schools use.
Decades of classroom research point to the same answer: children read fastest when they learn sound → blend → word in that order. ABC Phonics mirrors that scope at a toddler pace — three small steps, repeated until reading clicks.
- Step 1
Hear the sound
Each tile plays the pure phoneme — /a/ as in ant, not the letter name. Children build sound-first awareness, the foundation of fluent reading.
- Step 2
Blend & segment
After 6–8 sounds we introduce blending: c-a-t → cat. Mini-games rotate between blending and segmenting so the brain wires both directions.
- Step 3
Read first words
Decodable words (cat, ship, rain, queen) unlock as the child masters their building blocks. Every milestone earns a sticker and a celebratory cheer.
Want to dig deeper into phonics?
Free, trusted resources to understand the method behind the app and extend learning at home.
Jolly Phonics
The 42-sound synthetic-phonics method our scope sequence follows.
Reading Rockets — Phonics & Decoding
Free articles + parent guides on how phonics turns into reading.
Phonics International
Deep dives into systematic synthetic phonics for parents and teachers.
The Phonics Page
Free phonics lessons and decoding charts to extend learning offline.
Parent FAQ
- Ages 2–6. Big tap targets, no reading required to navigate, no time pressure. The Speak-With-Me scenes stretch through age 7 for emerging readers.
- Yes. Sound tiles, songs, mini-games, traces, and the starter podcast episode all work offline. Extra podcast episodes stream when online.
- No ads inside the kid-facing surfaces. Everything outside (store links, parent settings) sits behind a parent gate so children can't tap out by accident.
- English has ~44 phonemes. We teach 26 single letters plus 17 common digraph/trigraph sounds (sh, ch, ai, oa, air, ear, ure, …) so a child can decode real words, not just letter names.
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