EduVistaHQ English Lab
Sounds, words, stories!
Help your child learn to read with calm, friendly phonics lessons. Real voices for every sound, and the first 10 lessons are free with a parent account.
What is inside
Everything for learning to read
Guided lessons
10 step-by-step lessons teach the first letter sounds and your first blended words. The full 72-lesson course is coming soon.
Sound Studio
Hear every sound in a clear female or male voice, see the letter, and read a simple tip for how the mouth makes it.
Decodable stories
Read a story that uses only the sounds learned so far. Read to me, or read it by myself.
Two calm games
Sound Safari: hear a sound and find the picture. Blend Builder: slide sounds together to build words and grow your own world.
Phonics done gently
Teach /m/, not “muh”
Every sound is said cleanly, without an extra vowel tacked on, and each one has a picture word and a mouth tip. Sounds, words and sentences are all recorded in two voices, a woman's and a man's, so children hear different speakers.
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Letter friends
Every letter has an animal friend
From alligator to zebra, a friendly animal for each of the 26 letters of the alphabet.
The course
72 lessons in seven worlds
- World 1: Sound Garden
Listen for sounds, meet eight first letters and blend your first words.
Free now - World 2: Word Workshop
Short vowels, three-sound words, building and word families.
Coming later - World 3: Blend Bridge
Two and three consonants together at the start and end of words.
Coming later - World 4: Digraph Cove
Two letters that make one sound: sh, ch, th, wh, ph, ck, ng and qu.
Coming later - World 5: Vowel Valley
Silent e, long vowels and the vowel teams.
Coming later - World 6: Reading Ridge
R-controlled vowels, diphthongs, syllables, endings and fluent reading.
Coming later - World 7: Sound Summit
Bonus sounds: oo, aw, igh, air and ear, then soft c and soft g.
Coming later
Start today
Create a free parent account to use the English Lab. Your child's progress is saved to your account, so it follows them to other devices. A grown-up can sit alongside for the first lessons: the lessons include a short note for you.