Teach kids to read with fun, effective, evidence-based phonics software.

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Children who used ReadingDoctor® made strong improvements in their letter-sound knowledge. The program had a large positive effect on learning, beyond natural development over time.
— Grace et al. (2026, in press)

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ReadingDoctor® is evidence-based* software that helps children learn to read.

* Evidence-based means that independent research has shown that it improves important foundational reading skills.

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ReadingDoctor® is one of very few digital phonics programs with direct evidence from independent, peer-reviewed research. ReadingDoctor® uses a unique teaching method that automatically provides multisensory scaffolding in response to each child’s individual error patterns. It teaches reading and spelling through explicit, systematic synthetic phonics, an approach with very strong scientific support. The program moves students through a carefully structured teaching sequence while responding to each child’s individual strengths and weaknesses. It spends more time and provides additional support for difficult items, while moving on quickly from skills that have been mastered. ReadingDoctor® improves skills including phonemic awareness, letter-sound knowledge, blending, segmentation, decoding and high frequency sight word recognition. It provides a strong complement to your existing phonics program, alongside rich oral language, vocabulary, background knowledge, fluency and comprehension instruction.

 
 

Trusted by thousands of schools, speech-language pathologists, tutors, homeschoolers and parents since 2003.

 
 
 

Key features:

  • Suitable for K-3 students and older students with reading difficulties

  • Designed by a speech pathologist with a PhD in reading development

  • Backed by scientific evidence

  • Fully customisable and complements your school’s existing phonics programs!

  • Includes thousands of words, sentences, images and audio recordings to help students build word knowledge and reading comprehension skills

Explicitly teaches students to

  • recognise over 100 spellings of the 44 phonemes (speech sounds) of English

  • blend, decode and understand the meanings of thousands of English words with common spelling patterns

  • segment, encode and spell thousands of English words with common spelling patterns

  • recognise and understand the meanings of over 200 of the most common ‘sight words’

 

+ much more!

 
 
 
 
 

 
 

Please note: ReadingDoctor® develops foundational word-recognition skills for decoding, spelling and automatic word reading. It should be used alongside high-quality classroom instruction in phonics, oral language, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.

 
 

 
 

ReadingDoctor® is recommended in:

 
 
 
 

The Primary Reading Pledge, an evidence-based framework for schools

 
 
To reduce to near zero the number of children who finish primary school unable to read by providing primary schools with the resources and training to provide effective assessment and intervention.
— Primary Reading Pledge