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DecodeForge
Slide words into sounds and back — structured-literacy decoding, fluency & morphology for ages 9–14 reading below grade level, with Segwyn and the decoding crew.
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, praises, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.
Mentored by Segwyn
#4FA3B5 Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
DecodeForge is a structured-literacy workshop for older readers who read below grade level — sliding words apart into sounds and back together, chunking syllables, and building words from roots and affixes. Segwyn the master decoder coaches the crew, each of whom embodies one decoding move. Anti-shame by design: practice is private, a slip is never a failure, and confidence grows with fluency.
Segwyn
Segment & blend (mentor) — the master decoder who slides a word apart into its sounds and back together, and coaches the rest
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Chip
Syllable division — chips a big word into syllable chunks you can actually say
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Digby
Digraphs — fuses two letters into ONE sound (the 'one-breath' trick)
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Blenda
Consonant blends — smashes a cluster together so each sound still shows
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Silent Ellie
Silent / magic-e — stands silent at a word's end and makes the vowel say its name
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Sylva
Vowel teams — pairs two vowels so the first does the talking
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Prefa
Prefixes — clips a meaning-unit onto the FRONT of a word
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Rootley
Roots / bases — holds the meaning core everything attaches to
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Fixby
Suffixes — tacks a meaning-unit onto the END and guards the spelling-change rule
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Fluenna
Fluency — reads the same passage until it flows, keeping the beat (repeated reading)
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Mapper
Phoneme-grapheme mapping — maps each sound to its spelling tile on the board
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What's inside
Learning goal
Slide words into sounds and back — structured-literacy decoding, fluency & morphology for ages 9–14 reading below grade level, with Segwyn and the decoding crew.
Question kits
16 curriculum-aligned kits × 25 questions = 400 questions per app, mapped to recognized standards.
On-device AI mentor
FoundationModels-powered hints, feedback, and adaptive difficulty — all running locally.
Mentored by Segwyn — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How DecodeForge handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ No ads, no in-app purchases — you pay once
- ✅ COPPA compliant under the 2026 FTC amendments
- ✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in
DecodeForge runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
DecodeForge is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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