How does your body feel?
Big words aren’t scary — they’re just chunks.
Start here
Chunk It Break a long word into beats you can read one at a time.
Word Parts Snap a word together from its parts and find its meaning.
Read for Meaning Read a little page and show what it means.
Keep Practicing A mixed round that brings back what you've learned. Read & build
Chunk It Hear a long word, tap the beats, then split it into chunks you can read one at a time. Word Parts Build a word from its parts — a prefix, a root, a suffix — and find out what it means. Smooth Reading Read a sentence the way you would SAY it — group the words into phrases so it flows, not choppy word-by-word. Word Detective Meet a tricky word, then hunt for the CLUE in the sentence — a meaning, a matching word, an opposite, or an example — to unlock what it means. Main Idea Read a short passage, then pick what it is MOSTLY about — not just one small detail.
Quick checks
Count the Beats Chunk It Syllable Types Front Parts End Parts Word Roots The Big Idea Reading Tools Read Between the Lines What It Really Means Read It Like You Mean It
Mixed practice — revisit what you've learned 🌏 Read in your language
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Meet the cast — the characters who teach this
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Sonny Fluency + prosody -
Chunk Multisyllabic decoding -
Morpho Morphology -
Verba Vocabulary -
Gist Comprehension (informational) — a golden owl who finds the one big idea a whole page is about and the key details that hold it up, always with text evidence -
Vera Inference + figurative (literary) — a clever cat who reads what a story shows but doesn't say, and untangles what a phrase really means, from clues in the text -
Marley Mentor — a broad, calm badger who keeps the Reading Den; frames each skill as safe, offers read-aloud always, and treats a stumble like a sneeze — normal, never a failure
What next? Pick a door
- More like this WriteRise What is your plan before you write? PilePals How many words in your pile? PagePals Can you read this page aloud?
- A bit harder DecodeForge Can you break this long word apart? QuillSpell What do this word’s parts mean? WordForge Can you climb the word ladder?
- Something different GemPals Can you say this idea your way? SortWalkPals Will these two toys swap? ObbyPals Can Nims climb the course you built?