Jungle trail

⭐ {{ stars }} Stars

🌙 All done for today {{ capNote }}

Pick a voice

This device only has one voice.

Letter hunt

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Sound & words {{ actLabel }}

says “{{ curSound }}”

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Find the {{ curLower }} {{ actLabel }}

Is the underlined letter this one?

Word {{ findCount }}

Touch the letter {{ actLabel }}

Touch the letter that is the same as above

Word {{ touchCount }}

Listen and find {{ hearLabel }}

Find the letter you hear

Blend it {{ blendLabel }}

Grown-up: did they read it?

Big and little

Big

Little

Tricky words {{ trickyLabel }}

Can you read this word?

Tricky words can’t be sounded out. Just know them!

Meet the letter {{ actLabel }}

{{ curLower }} Little

Grown-up: say the sound together, then play

✏️ Writing time {{ writeLabel }}

Brilliant! ⭐

You wrote it! ⭐

✏️

Trace the {{ traceSizeLabel }} letter {{ actLabel }}

start at the green dot

Spot the words {{ actLabel }}

Tap the words that start with

{{ spotEx.pre }} {{ spotEx.ch }} ↑ {{ spotEx.post }}

at the start

Hidden inside {{ actLabel }}

{{ containEx.pre }} {{ containEx.ch }} ↑ {{ containEx.mid }}

{{ containEx.ch2 }} ↑

anywhere inside

Session

COMPLETE

⭐ +{{ starsEarned }} stars

New animal friend

Graduated

Free draw

🌿

Welcome to
Phonics Trail

Short daily sessions that teach letter sounds, one at a time, along a jungle trail. About six minutes a go.

Who is learning?

Their first name is all we need. It shows on the trail and keeps their sounds and stars separate from anyone else's.

The grown-ups page opens with a quick grown-up sum. You can add more children in there.

🐒

Back to the jungle!

Grown-ups

Mastered

Learning

To come

A session finished Today

This month and last

Learning pace

How quickly new sounds are sticking.

average to master, {{ ins.avgNote }}

Took longest

Where the time goes

Last 60 days, by activity.

Nothing yet. This fills in after a session or two.

Most slips

No slips recorded yet.

Big or little?

Nothing to practise right now: every taught letter is known both ways.

Letter hunt

A quick memory check every couple of days, taking turns: mixed, then little letters only, then capitals only. They tap the letters they know; new letters are mixed in to be left alone and don't count.

Every learnt sound remembered 🎉

Didn't spot these, so they'll come up again in practice:

Needs a hand

These come round twice as often until they stick.

Every sound

Change any sound by hand if the app has it wrong.

Scroll for all 26 sounds ↓

Children

Each child keeps their own sounds, stars and trail. Their 4-digit PIN is asked for when switching to them on the home screen. New PINs start at 1234.

Back up progress

Progress only lives on this device. Save a backup file now and then, and restore it here if the device is changed or the browser is cleared.

Google Sheet backup

Sounds at once · {{ letterCount }}

How many new sounds they work on together.

Days to master · {{ threshold }}

Correct days in a row before a sound is ticked off.

Sessions per animal · {{ perStop }}

Free draw · {{ drawMinutesLabel }}

How long they get on the drawing pad.

Sessions a day · {{ dailyCapLabel }}

Lock the screen

1 · Make it a full-screen app

In Safari tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. Open Phonics Trail from that icon: no address bar, no tabs.

2 · Lock them in with Guided Access

Settings › Accessibility › Guided Access, turn it on and set a passcode. In the app, triple-click the side (or Home) button and tap Start. Triple-click again and enter the passcode to finish.

Android: Settings › Security › App pinning does the same job.

Movement

Writing time · {{ writeMinutesLabel }}