Three programmes, one method
Roots, Lighthouse and Phonido for Schools
Structured, systematic phonics for one child, a group or a whole class, with the HeartWise thread inside it.
One method
Structured, systematic phonics, taught by a person
Each programme is taught by an adult to one child, a group or a whole class. Phonido gives the adult the right lesson, the right materials and the right words at the moment they are needed, so each child is taught the right step, at the right time.
Children have no accounts. Most learning happens on paper, with a teacher.
Ages 4 and up · first teaching
Phonido Roots
Five levels, the Seed to the Canopy, in the second edition: one Student Book and one Workbook per child per level, the Reading Ladder beside them, and a HeartWise Moment in every unit.
- Seed
- Sprout
- Sapling
- Strong Tree
- Canopy
- sessions
- 158
- planned weeks
- 75
- readers
- 16
Ages 4 and up · intervention
Phonido Lighthouse
For the child who needs a second chance. 140 numbered days in one continuous sequence, three stages, 22 sets. A child is placed at a day and works forward. No restarts anywhere.
- days
- 140
- checkpoints
- 23
- Day Book pages
- 1,030
Taught in class by Phonido teachers · whole class
Phonido for Schools
100 school days in four volumes, with an Advanced book. Every day names its sound, words and sentence, and points to the six pages in the child's book.
- school days
- 100
- volumes, plus Advanced
- 4
- progress checks
- 6
The HeartWise thread
The heart minute
Two minutes a day of HeartWise: weather, story heart, the power of yet.
Structured reading with the HeartWise thread inside it: two minutes a day of social-emotional learning and the power of yet, woven into every session of Roots and Lighthouse.
For a child
A week for a child
One unit a week, six moves, two books.
The child reads from the Student Book and writes, plays, feels, goes outside and practises in the Workbook. Nothing happens on a screen.
Read
From the Student Book, only words the child can already decode.
Write
The letter path, said aloud in the same words every time.
Play
A game with the same code, so it becomes automatic.
Heart
The weather check-in, a story heart, the power of yet.
Outside
Pebble letters, sand writing, a sound walk. Forest Phonics.
Practise
Eight pages the child can do, with the answers folded away.
Alongside the lessons
The Reading Tree
Twenty-six leaves on the back of the Workbook, one for each letter, coloured in as it becomes secure. A child watches their own tree grow from Seed to Canopy.
The Reading Ladder
Sixteen little chapter books with one cast and one wood, from 250 words to 1,700. The longest thing many children have ever finished.
What comes home
A Family and Home Guide, sent by the teacher. A report the teacher writes and sends themselves, never automatically, through a link that expires.
Three things a teacher does
Place the child
A short, spoken placement puts a child at a day in the sequence. No restarts, no levels to repeat, no test score to carry.
Teach beside them
The lesson opens with the script, the timing, the materials and the correction for that day. The teacher runs it from paper and tiles.
Record three words
After the visit the teacher records what they saw: secure, developing, not yet secure. Never a number, never a rank.