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The at-home reading check

Short listening games, a few letter and word tasks, and a 60-second reading snapshot — the same kinds of skills the professionals probe — scored into a plain-English answer: keep going, keep watching, or ask for a closer look.

Here's the honest science: the things that best predict how easily reading develops are surprisingly checkable at home — hearing the sounds inside words, knowing what sound each letter makes, sounding out words you've never seen, and reading speed. This screener pairs a short parent questionnaire with real mini-tasks you run with your child, then tells you plainly what the pattern suggests and what to do next. It screens for signs — it never diagnoses.

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Worried about your child's reading?

A New Page is our reading program for dyslexic and struggling readers, ages 3 to 18. Daily story adventures your child stars in, with real structured-literacy practice built in. Start with a free reading check.

Try the free reading check →

1 · You answer

Quick questions about family history, early speech, and what reading looks like at home — the part only you can see.

2 · You play, they try

Short listening games and reading tasks with everything on screen — letters, word lists, a timed passage with a built-in 60-second timer.

3 · You get a clear answer

A plain-English result, an honest written summary you can print, and the exact next step — including the free letter that requests a school evaluation.

Start the screener

Pick your child's band, then go through it together — it's gentle, and "stop if it's too hard" is useful information, not a failure. Nothing you enter is saved or sent — not on our servers, not in your browser. Print your summary and it’s gone.

This is a screening tool, not a diagnosis. It looks for signs that are associated with reading difficulty and dyslexia — it cannot diagnose anything, and a low or high result is not a label. Only a qualified professional (a psychologist, educational evaluator, or your school's evaluation team) can diagnose a reading disability. Use this summary as an organized starting point to bring to them.