The first-week playbook

A first week that ends with your child asking for one more page.

The app does the teaching. This is what to expect, night by night, and the one move that lands each one.

Emberwing at night: lantern light from a window over the dragon yard

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Night 1

The check, then the first page.

A free reading check, about 5 to 10 minutes, finds the safest place to start. It ends with a warm summary and one button: start tonight’s first episode. Sit shoulder to shoulder, follow the script, keep it short.

You say: “Ready to try this? I read the story. You read the highlighted line.”

Watch for: your child asking, “That’s it?” The first session is designed to end on a win, not a wall. Ten to fifteen minutes total.

Night 2

The story remembers you.

You open the app again and the story picks up where it left off, in the world your child chose. That continuity is the whole product; it’s why kids come back.

You say: “Look, your sidekick is right where we left them last night.”

Watch for: a small hesitation on the first line. It’s cold-start friction. Read a warm-up sentence yourself, then hand it over.

Night 3

Ready to try one night together?

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Your child will probably say “boring.”

The honeymoon breaks around night three. The novelty is gone, the story hasn’t hit its first big turn yet, and your child’s testing whether this is real. This is the most important night of the seven.

You say: “I know. Two pages tonight and we’ll stop. And I want to see what happens to the sidekick.”

Watch for: the urge to skip a night. Don’t. Doing two short pages beats doing zero. The habit is the whole game.

Night 4

A hard word.

Your child hits a word they can’t get. The app’s job is to help. Your job is to stay warm.

You say: nothing, for three seconds. Then, without drama: “That one’s tricky. Try again, and let’s tap it out together if we need to.” If still stuck: just say the word. Move on.

Watch for: your own frustration face. Kids read it faster than they read the page. Breathe. Nothing costs you the moment more than looking disappointed.

Night 5

The first cliffhanger lands.

Somewhere around night five, the story throws its first real hook. Your child will notice. Your child may ask to read one more page. Let them.

You say: “One more, then bed. Deal?”

Watch for: the pride in their voice on the last line. Name it out loud: “You read that whole page. That was hard, and you did it.”

Night 6

The weekly report shows up.

By now your weekly report has a full week in it. It shows what your child mastered, what’s next and a short note for a teacher or IEP team. Print it or save it as a PDF.

You say (out loud to your kid): “Look at this. That’s all the sounds you locked in this week.”

Watch for: the temptation to celebrate speed. Accuracy is what matters at this stage. Speed comes later, and only after accuracy holds.

“One by one the lanterns caught and glowed, until the harbor wore a long warm necklace of light.”

From TidewatchEpisode 8the 8 to 10 version

Night 7

The habit is real.

After a week of consistent nights, you have a habit. Not a hope, a habit. This is the point of the first week. Whatever comes next is easier because of this.

You say: “Same time tomorrow. Every night this week happened because you kept showing up.”

Watch for: the desire to skip a night now that “it’s working.” Don’t. Four nights a week is a full Reading Week. Five or six is even better.

If any night doesn’t go well, that’s a normal night, not a broken week. Read the Coach’s Card again in the morning, then just show up tomorrow. That’s the whole method.

Greenwood, a story world for ages 5 to 10

What A New Page is

A reading program you do together, at home.

Fifteen minutes a night, side by side, from first sounds to confident reading, for ages 3 to 18. Your child reads the hero’s lines in a real story, built only from the sounds your child has learned. You read the rest from a script, so you never have to guess what to say.

7 days free. No card. Then $29 a month for the whole family, or $299 a year. That’s the founding family price, and it stays yours for as long as you’re with us.

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