Foundational Literacy
Build reading skills from scratch — sounds, vocabulary, comprehension, phonics, and reading. For ages 8-14.
Sound Awareness
Train your ears to hear and play with the sounds in words — the first step to reading.
Listening to Sounds Around Us
Learn to listen carefully to the sounds in your environment.
Beginning Sounds: What Sound Does It Start With?
Learn to identify the first sound in a word.
Beginning Sounds: Matching Words That Start the Same
Find words that share the same beginning sound.
Ending Sounds: What Sound Does It End With?
Learn to identify the last sound in a word.
Rhyming Words: Do These Sound the Same?
Learn what rhyming words are and how to hear them.
Rhyming Words: Find the Rhyme
Practice finding rhyming words in groups.
Making Rhymes: Can You Think of a Rhyme?
Practice creating your own rhyming words.
Syllable Clapping: Breaking Words into Parts
Learn to break words into syllables by clapping.
Syllable Counting: How Many Parts?
Practice counting syllables in longer words.
Blending Syllables: Put the Parts Together
Learn to blend syllables back into whole words.
Sound Games: Odd One Out
Find the word that does not match the sound pattern.
Sound Review: Listening Champion
Review everything you have learned about sounds.
Vocabulary Building
Learn new words about your body, family, home, market, school, and the world around you.
My Body: Head to Toe
Learn the English words for parts of your body.
Staying Healthy: Health Words
Learn words about health, hygiene, and staying well.
My Family: Who Lives With Me?
Learn the English words for family members.
My Home: Things in the House
Learn the English words for things you find at home.
At the Market: Trading Words
Learn words used when buying and selling at the market.
Market Items: Food Words
Learn the English words for common foods in Nigeria.
Getting Around: Transport Words
Learn the English words for ways people travel.
My School: Classroom Words
Learn the English words for things at school.
Nature: Animals Around Us
Learn the English words for common animals.
Nature: Plants and Weather
Learn the English words for plants, trees, and weather.
Describing Words: Big, Small, Fast, Slow
Learn adjectives — words that describe things.
Action Words: Run, Jump, Eat, Sleep
Learn verbs — words that describe what people do.
Listening Comprehension
Listen to stories set in Nigeria and answer questions to build understanding skills.
Amina Goes to the Market
Listen to a story and retell events in order.
Emeka and the Lost Goat
Listen to a story about solving a problem.
The Kindest Girl in Lagos
Listen to a story and think about how characters feel.
Bola's First Day at School
Listen to a story and practise predicting what happens next.
The Clever Tortoise
Listen to a Nigerian folktale and find the main idea.
Sharing at the Market
Listen to a story and understand cause and effect.
Chidi's Big Dream
Listen to a story and practise making inferences.
The Rainy Season
Listen to an informational text and learn facts.
Grandma's Jollof Rice Recipe
Listen to a recipe and practise sequencing steps.
Story Review: Listening Detective
Review all listening comprehension skills with a final story.
Oral English & Grammar
Learn to speak in full sentences using correct English grammar.
Speaking in Full Sentences
Learn to express ideas using complete sentences.
Subject and Verb: Who Does What?
Learn to identify the subject and verb in a sentence.
Past Tense: What Happened Yesterday?
Learn to talk about things that already happened.
Present Tense: What is Happening Now?
Learn to talk about things happening right now.
Future Tense: What Will Happen Tomorrow?
Learn to talk about things that will happen later.
Asking Questions: Who, What, Where?
Learn to ask questions using who, what, and where.
Asking Questions: When, Why, How?
Learn to ask questions using when, why, and how.
Describing Things: Using Adjectives
Learn to use adjectives to describe nouns in sentences.
Comparing: Bigger, Biggest
Learn to compare things using -er and -est.
Grammar Review: Sentence Builder
Review all grammar skills and build great sentences.
Advanced Sounds
Work with individual sounds in words and learn the alphabet — your bridge to reading.
Breaking Words into Sounds
Learn to segment words into their individual sounds (phonemes).
Counting Sounds in Words
Practise counting the number of sounds in words.
Removing Sounds: What's Left?
Learn what happens when you take a sound away from a word.
Changing Sounds: Make a New Word
Learn to change one sound in a word to create a new word.
First Sound, Last Sound, Middle Sound
Identify sounds at different positions in a word.
Blending Sounds into Words
Practise blending individual sounds to make words.
The Alphabet: Letter Names
Learn the 26 letters of the English alphabet and their names.
Letters and Their Sounds: a-m
Learn the sounds that the letters a through m make.
Letters and Their Sounds: n-z
Learn the sounds that the letters n through z make.
Sound-Letter Review: Ready for Reading
Review all sound and letter skills to prepare for phonics.
Phonics
Learn letter-sound relationships and start reading your first words using Jolly Phonics ordering.
Letters s, a, t: Sound and Shape
Learn the sounds and shapes of the letters s, a, and t.
Letters i, p, n: Sound and Shape
Learn the sounds and shapes of the letters i, p, and n.
First Words: sat, pin, tap, nap, tip, sit
Practise reading your first words using the letters you know.
Letters c/k, e, h: Sound and Shape
Learn the sounds and shapes of the letters c, k, e, and h.
Letters r, m, d: Sound and Shape
Learn the sounds and shapes of the letters r, m, and d.
More Words: cat, hen, mat, red, dim, ham
Practise reading more words with your 13 letters.
Letters g, o, u: Sound and Shape
Learn the sounds and shapes of the letters g, o, and u.
Letters l, f, b: Sound and Shape
Learn the sounds and shapes of the letters l, f, and b.
Even More Words: dog, fun, log, but, fig, gum
Practise reading many new words with your growing letter knowledge.
Review: All 18 Sounds
Review all the letter sounds you have learned.
Tricky Words: the, is, I, to, a, was
Learn common words that cannot be sounded out in the usual way.
Reading Simple Sentences
Put it all together and read complete sentences.
Blending & Decoding
Build reading fluency with blends, digraphs, and sight words.
CVC Words: Sounding Out
Master reading Consonant-Vowel-Consonant words.
CVC Words: Reading Practice
Practise reading CVC words quickly and in sentences.
Consonant Blends: Two Sounds Together
Learn to read words with two consonant sounds at the beginning.
Consonant Blends: Reading Practice
Practise reading words and sentences with consonant blends.
Digraphs: sh, ch, th
Learn letter pairs that make one new sound.
Digraphs: Reading Practice
Practise reading words and sentences with digraphs.
Reading Short Sentences
Build fluency by reading short, simple sentences.
Reading Longer Sentences
Build fluency by reading longer, more complex sentences.
Sight Words: Common Words to Know
Learn more high-frequency words that you will see everywhere.
Blending Review: Word Reader
Review all blending and decoding skills.
Reading Comprehension
Read passages and stories with understanding — find main ideas, answer questions, and think about what you read.
Reading and Understanding Short Passages
Read short passages and show you understand them.
Finding the Main Idea
Learn to find what a passage is mostly about.
Answering Questions About What You Read
Practise answering who, what, where, when, and why questions.
Characters in Stories
Learn to understand the characters in what you read.
Sequence: What Happened First, Next, Last?
Practise putting story events in the correct order.
Informational Text: Learning Facts
Read non-fiction text and learn to identify key facts.
Stories with Dialogue
Read stories where characters talk to each other.
Making Predictions from Reading
Use what you read to predict what will happen next.
Summarizing What You Read
Learn to tell the most important parts of a passage in a few sentences.
Reading Review: Comprehension Champion
Use all your reading comprehension skills in a final review.