Teach your toddler to read and write

Five ways through every word. Your little one hears the word and matches it to the print, spells it out on the keyboard, finds it among words that look almost the same, reads it aloud, and traces a letter with a finger.

One word, met five different ways. That is the part that makes it hold — not saying it over and over, but coming at it from five directions until it is theirs.

What your toddler is actually doing

• Hear it — a word is read aloud, and they match it to the printed word.
• Spell it — they type the letters in order, on a real keyboard.
• Find it — they pick it out from words that look like it.
• Read it — they say the word aloud with the print in front of them.
• Trace it — they form the letter by following its shape with a finger.

Where it goes

1. Two-letter words — GO, AT, IN, ON, UP
2. Three-letter words — CAT, DOG, SUN, HAT
3. Sight words — THE, IS, MY, YOU
4. Simple sentences — I SEE, MY CAT, THE SUN

What it builds

Learning: word recognition · spelling and letter order · reading aloud · early writing

Thinking: working memory · visual discrimination · focused visual search · planning and sequencing · hand control

Letters are dealt easiest-shape-first — the straight ones before the curves, the curves before the diagonals — so a child traces something they can finish before they are asked for something harder.

Made by a mom

Montessori-inspired, IB PYP-inspired, and built for one toddler before it was built for anyone else. Start playing above — the first words are free, no account needed.