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THE READING DR.

The Reading Doctor

For Families

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We find the underlying Reading Gaps.
Close the Gaps. Build Critical Readers.

The Reading Doctor identifies your child’s underlying reading gaps and provides targeted practice to help close them at home.

Free placement check · No login required to start

Built by Reading Specialists

From a school? Explore The Reading Doctor for Schools →

Learning English? Your child reads in English — you don’t need English to help.

Directions, labels, and at-home tips are in your language. The reading activities stay in English so the results stay accurate. Tap your language to see it now.

Made for every reader:Dyslexia-friendly fonts & spacingDirections read aloudExtra time & focus toolsLearning differences welcome

Try it now — no sign-up, no email

Hand your child the phone and watch them play

Pick your child’s grade below — they’ll be playing a real reading game from the app in seconds.

Playing is always free. When you’re ready, the free reading check finds your child’s exact gaps and builds their full plan.

Your Child May Know the Skill—But Still Have Underlying Reading Gaps.

A child can appear to understand a skill in class while underlying reading gaps continue to affect reading fluency, comprehension, independent work, or assessment performance.

Diagram: as new skills are taught from the beginning of the school year through fall, winter, and spring, the stack of skills students learn grows taller while the bold red unidentified gaps beside it grow wider, ending with a child who looks overwhelmed.
The longer underlying gaps go unidentified, the harder they become to close.

Homework: It’s A New Thing.

The program does the teaching — it finds your child’s underlying reading gaps and delivers the 15-minute practice at the right moment. You just celebrate the wins.

How It Works

Three Steps to Stronger Reading

Identify Underlying Reading Gaps

Pinpoint the underlying gaps that may be affecting your child's reading.

Target the Gaps

Provide practice focused on the identified underlying reading gaps.

Close the Gaps

Reinforce learning through purposeful practice at home.

Take The Reading Doctor anywhere — add it to your phone in under a minute.

Core Process

Your Child’s Path to Progress

  1. Free Reading Check
  2. Identify Underlying Reading Gaps
  3. Target the Gaps
  4. Personalized Practice
  5. Build Critical Reading Skills

Practice With Intent. Only 15 Minutes.

Every child’s practice should build toward something. The Reading Doctor identifies your child’s underlying reading gaps and turns a focused 15-minute daily routine into the exact practice your child actually needs to strengthen.

For Your School

Want Your School’s Reading Team to Have This Too?

Tell us about your school and we’ll send a short introduction to your principal, literacy coordinator, or reading teacher — with a note that a parent recommended it.

Know a teacher, principal, or literacy coordinator’s email? We’ll send them the introduction directly. Leave blank and our team will reach out to the school.

IDENTIFY THE UNDERLYING READING GAPS.

TARGET THE GAPS.

CLOSE THE GAPS.

BUILD CRITICAL READING SKILLS.

MLL Students… Dyslexia… Special Ed… Struggling Readers

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