The free reading check
Your child is smart.Your teen is smart. So why is reading so hard?
In a few minutes, see where your child’steen’s reading is breaking down, and the safest place to start. Free, no account. We ask for your email to show you the result.
From EmberwingEpisode 1the 5 to 10 version“It waited for the forty-first. Go on, keeper. Tell it who you are.”
From The DigEpisode 1the 11 to 18 version“Seven years ago, Grandpa rode off after the Sunken City, the one he swore was real when every mapmaker alive laughed at him.”
Child not with you? Get your link for tonight. About 5 to 10 minutes · ages 5 to 18 · no card, ever, for the check. Ages 3 and 4 skip the check: the Littles start with sound play.
How it works
Not a vague score. A clear, plain-English picture you can act on tonight.
Sit together for a few minutes
One calm step at a time. You are told exactly what to say and what to mark.
See the plain result
Your child'sYour teen's level, the sticking point, and the next step, in words that make sense.
Start that night, if you want to
The very first story starts where your childteen is ready, and it is waiting. Free week, no credit card. Or just keep the result and come back later. Nothing is lost.
Send yourself the link for tonight
We will email it to you now, so when your childteen is beside you, it is ready to open. Most parents do it this way.
Child with you right now?
Start the check now → About 5 to 10 minutes, side by side, after dinner or before bed. Your childYour teen reads a few words, you mark what you hear, and you finally see what is actually going on.
What the check tells you
It looks at five things, gently, one calm step at a time.
- Letter sounds
- Blending
- Real words
- Robot words
- Spelling
Your child'sYour teen's safe starting point
The step where reading is neither too hard nor too easy, the level real progress is built from.
Where reading is breaking down
The specific skill that is tripping your childteen up, named clearly, so you finally understand what is actually going on.
What to do next
A simple, concrete next step matched to what the check found, whether that is starting here at home or asking the school for more.
Answers for struggling and dyslexic readers
This check is built for the kids other tools give up on. If reading has been a long fight, this is made for you.
Our story in 30 seconds · see tonight's plan →
Is your child beside you now?
Start the free reading checkAbout 5 to 10 minutes. No card, ever, for the check.
See the trick that makes kids ask to read
Play your child'steen's part for fifteen seconds. Read the line below out loud, then choose the button.
What you will walk away with
A real example. Yours will be about your childteen, in the same plain English.
Sample result · Emma, age 8
What is already solid: short vowels and single letters. That is real progress her school may not have named yet.
Where reading breaks down: consonant blends, like the st in stop and the bl in black. When a word has one, Emma guesses from the first letter instead of reading it through. That one habit explains most of the nightly battle.
Tonight's first step: a fifteen-minute story one step before blends, where every word is one she can win. Confidence first, then blends.
Sample result · Sam, age 14
What is already solid: short vowels and single letters. That is real progress school may not have named yet.
Where reading breaks down: consonant blends, like the st in stop and the bl in black. When a word has one, Sam guesses from the first letter instead of reading it through. That one habit explains most of the nightly battle.
Tonight's first step: a fifteen-minute story one step before blends, where every word is one Sam can win. Confidence first, then blends.
Our privacy promise
The check is gentle by design. Your childYour teen cannot fail it. It is educational, not a medical diagnosis. The check runs on your device. We ask for your email at the end to show you the result and send it, and we keep that email with the reading level and a short reason for it. Never your child’s name or age.
No account to create, no card, nothing to pay for the check, now or ever. No ads. Never a recording, never sold. Your child’s name stays on this device unless you choose to share a reader with another grown-up.
Questions parents ask
It is not too late, and there is a way forward.
Is the reading check really free?
The reading check is free for everyone, forever. No account to create, no card, nothing to pay, now or ever. We ask for your email at the end so we can send you the full result and keep it safe for you, and so you can come back to it later without running the check again.
What happens after the check?
Behind it is our full reading program, the nightly story sessions you will see below. If the check shows your childteen needs it, the first week is free, then it is $29 a month for every child in your family. In a growing list of states, education funds can cover it. If your childteen does not need it, we will say so, and the check alone is still yours.
Can my child fail it? Is it a diagnosis?
You run it together, side by side, when your childteen is next to you. Your childYour teen reads a few things aloud, you mark what you hear. No grades, no pressure, no comparison to other kids. Free, no account to create, no card. We ask for your email at the end so we can send you the result.
The check is gentle by design. Your childYour teen cannot fail it. It is educational, not a medical diagnosis.
Who made the check?
This is not a random quiz. It was built on the science of reading and reviewed by a reading specialist with 41 years teaching children to read, so it finds the skill where your child'steen's reading is breaking down.
A New Page was built by the team behind A New Story and reviewed by our Founding Literacy Advisor, a reading specialist with 41 years teaching children to read. It uses the step-by-step method (structured literacy) recommended for dyslexic and struggling readers.
The kind of screening a specialist runs at the first appointment. Yours is free.
Why is reading so hard for my child?
If reading is a nightly battle, there is a reason, and it is not laziness and it is not your fault. In a few minutes, this gentle reading check shows you where reading is breaking down for your childteen, and the safest place to start.
Sounds like my childteen: bright but just starting
Perfect timing. A New Page teaches explicit, systematic phonics from the very first sound, inside illustrated stories your child unlocks by reading aloud. You start where they are ready and confidence builds fast, one win a night.
Sounds like my childteen: guesses at words, reading is a battle
This is the case we were built for. The free reading check finds the skill your child keeps guessing past, usually blends or vowel teams, then rebuilds it in order. The guessing stops because the words are finally ones they can actually read.
Sounds like my childteen: older and embarrassed by it
Stories written for their age, a private mode, and a track built to run mostly on their own, with you joining for a weekly check-in. Reading stops being the thing that slows your child down.
Sounds like my childteen: diagnosed dyslexia or already in tutoring
Structured literacy that fits how they learn, every night, at home. It is a strong complement to school intervention or an Orton-based tutor, the daily reps that make those specialist hours actually stick.
See the whole program first → · The science behind it · Your state may pay for it · How we measure progress
Fifteen minutes a night.
A real story.
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