Readers and age groups
Adding a child, the four age groups, sign-in pictures and PINs, and each reader's settings.
14 articles
In the order most people need them
- The four age groups
What each age group gives your child, how the books differ in length, pictures and chapters, and how to choose the right group.
- Moving a reader to another age group
How to move your child to an older or younger age group from their Progress page, how the just-right check works, and what happens to books already made.
- A tour of each reader's pages
What you find on each of your child's pages, from Overview to Settings, and which card on the Settings and Safety pages does what.
- PINs and picture passwords
How your child signs in with a PIN or a row of pictures, how to change it, what happens after too many wrong tries, and how to sign them out everywhere.
- How the page looks
Choosing the typeface, text size and colors of your child's books, turning down movement, and what your child can change inside a book.
- Reading level and phonics
How we estimate the level of text that suits your child, what "Words on the page" does, and how phonics phases work for readers aged 5 to 7.
- The word games
What the short sound games are, how the one sound is chosen, what is kept about how they went, and how to turn them off.
- What your child likes
How your child tells us what they like, how you can add to it, what the "Learn what they enjoy" switch does, and how likes shape the book maker's suggestions.
- Time limits and bedtime
Setting a daily reading limit, a bedtime that warms and dims the page, and a timer that stops reading aloud, and what your child sees for each.
- Topics to leave out of stories
How to keep particular topics out of your child's stories with "Never include", what the toilet jokes switch does, and what your child sees when they pick something you turned off.
- Following your child's progress
What the Overview, Activity and Progress pages show, what each figure means, how stickers work, and how to print a report card or share it with a teacher.
- Removing a reader
How to remove a child from your account, what is deleted after 30 days, how to ask us to undo it, and what it means for your plan.
- When your child turns thirteen
Why we ask when your child turns thirteen, the email you get a month before, what stops for good on the day, and what stays the same.
- When reading stays hard
What the note on your child's Progress page means, what it does not mean, what dyslexia is and is not, and who can actually tell you.
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