From letter sounds to real books in 90 days.

Fifteen minutes a day. Every word, heard.

AlphaPhonics is a 1:1 AI reading tutor for K–2. It listens to your child read out loud, catches the exact sound they missed, and fixes it on the spot — the way a $150-an-hour reading specialist would.

NOW ENROLLING · FALL 2026 · 200 SEATS · K–2

LISTENING
MAYA · K · LESSON 23: sh / ch / th

Decodable Passage 23-B

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LISTENING TO MAYA READ…

48

ACCURACY 97% · 41 WPM

SOUNDS MASTERED 31/44

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WHY PHONICS STALLS AT SCHOOL

Whole-class phonics moves at one speed. Your child doesn’t.

Reading out loud to someone who listens, corrects, and coaches is the single highest-leverage minute in early literacy. It’s also the exact minute classrooms can’t scale: in a class of 22, your child gets about 90 seconds of it a day.

Daily read-aloud time, actually heard

Classroom of 22~90 SEC
AlphaPhonics15 MIN
01

Every word, heard.

Your child reads out loud every single day. AlphaPhonics listens to 100% of it and catches the exact phoneme that slipped — not the worksheet answer, the sound itself.

02

Every sound, mastered.

All 44 phonemes of English, taught in research-backed order. Nothing gets skipped because the class moved on. Nothing repeats after mastery is proven.

03

2x the pace, in 15 minutes.

One-on-one, mastery-ordered practice moves about twice the classroom scope-and-sequence pace — and hands the rest of the hour back to your kid.

WHAT 15 MINUTES LOOKS LIKE

The Daily 15.

0:00
2 MIN

Warm-Up

Yesterday's wobbliest sounds come back first, before anything new.

2:00
4 MIN

Sound Work

New material. Hear it, blend it, build words with it.

6:00
6 MIN

The Read-Aloud

A decodable passage read out loud — every word heard and scored.

12:00
3 MIN

The Re-Read

Same passage again with mistakes highlighted. Fluency, timed.

The Friday Snapshot

Every Friday, you get one page: words per minute, accuracy, and sounds mastered — benchmarked against national norms (DIBELS® 8). Not a gold-star sticker. A measurement.

WPM ▲ 12 → 41

ACCURACY ▲ 84% → 97%

SOUNDS MASTERED ▲ 19 → 31 OF 44

VS. NATIONAL MEDIAN: +34 PERCENTILE

THE NUMBERS

Proof you can see by Friday.

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faster than the typical classroom scope-and-sequence pace

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phonemes taught to mastery. None skipped, none rushed.

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of your child's read-aloud words heard, scored, and coached

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more daily read-aloud time than a class of 22 can give one child

He read the cereal box in the car. Out loud. Nobody asked him to.
Danielle R. · Mom of Theo, Kindergarten
I like that it hears me. When I get a sound wrong we just fix it, and nobody has to wait on me.
Nora · 1st Grade
We swapped 45 minutes of worksheet arguments for 15 minutes she asks for. The Friday Snapshot is the first school data I've ever actually understood.
Marcus T. · Dad of Ava, 1st Grade

HOW WE BUILT THIS

The best learning science in the world, aimed at one skill.

AlphaPhonics comes from the same team behind Alpha School’s mastery-based, one-on-one model. No leveled guessing, no three-cueing shortcuts — just the Science of Reading, sequenced to the exact order your child’s brain needs it, one phoneme at a time.

The AlphaPhonics Yeti reading a book in a cozy book nook

Who is this good for?

  • Doesn’t know letters yet

    Starting from zero is fine. AlphaPhonics begins at the very first sound and builds up in order.

  • Can read, but slowly

    Strong readers need to be fluent. We don't stop at the basics. We help kids read effortlessly, so they can focus on comprehending the substsance of what they're reading.

Not sure if it's a good fit?

Try the free diagnostic. Ten minutes tells you exactly where they stand against all 44 phonemes — and whether AlphaPhonics is the right fit before you commit to anything.

Try the Free Diagnostic
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FREE DIAGNOSTIC · NO COMMITMENT

Find out if it’s a fit.

Built on the same learning science behind Alpha School’s results — aimed at your child’s reading, free for ten minutes.

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K–2 · 10 MIN · NO CREDIT CARD REQUIRED