One-to-one reading coaching
One teacher. One child. A love of reading.
Personalised reading coaching, with a trained teacher beside your child. We give your child the support and mentorship to understand the sounds, fall in love with reading, and make reading a habit.
Our belief
No child should be left behind in reading.
Every child deserves someone who sits beside them, notices what they need, and believes they can do it.
That is what one-to-one coaching is. There is no class to keep up with and nobody to compare with. Your child has a teacher's full attention, at their own step, for the whole session. When a sound finally clicks, somebody is right there to see it.
In time, reading stops being something a child has to do, and becomes something they want to do.
What makes it special
Personal, patient and science-based
One trained teacher
A Phonido-trained teacher works with your child alone: support and mentorship, not just lessons.
Taught at the right step
Your child starts where they really are, and each lesson is the right next step. No restarts and no levels to repeat.
Feedback every week
Every week you hear how your child is getting on, in plain words: what is secure, what is developing, and what comes next. Never a rank.
Science-based phonics
Sounds are taught explicitly, in a planned order, and each step rests on the last. This is structured, systematic phonics.
A good place to begin
Would you like to know your child's current reading level?
Sit with your child for about five minutes and go through our short, free reading check. You will see where your child is now, with two things to try at home.
How it works
From first talk to weekly coaching
We find the right step
We talk with you, and a short, spoken placement shows where your child should begin.
A 60-minute session
One teacher and one child, with books, cards and tiles. Sounds, words and stories, with time to enjoy them.
You hear how it went
Every week you get feedback from the teacher, so you know how your child is growing and how to help at home.
Enrol your child
Tell us a little, and we will be in touch
We will talk it through with you first.
Please do not write your child's name here. We will talk with you first.
Thank you. We will be in touch.
If you need us sooner, write to contact@phonido.com or call +94 763 102 102.
Where
At our studio, or online
Modern Learning Studio
No. 171/3, New Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 4
Your child sits with the teacher at a table, with books, cards and tiles in their hands.
Online
Wherever you are. Your child joins through a link from their teacher and sees only the lesson board. There is no account and no password for the child.