Limited-Time Summer Savings · ends August 31
Live, small-group reading instruction for K–5 — pods of five, certified educators, and an explicit Science of Reading plan matched to exactly where your child is stuck. Enroll online today; the assessment and pod placement happen after you join.
94% parent satisfaction · 75% of families re-enroll after their first term
Pods of five readers, never more
Certified, Science of Reading–trained educators
Weekly progress notes in your parent portal
Enroll online — no consultation call required
Nine O'Clock
The book is open on the kitchen table. Your child guesses at a word from the first letter, then guesses again, then goes quiet. You say it gently. They say it back, and two lines later the same word stops them cold.
There is a note from the teacher in the folder. There is a reading level in an email you have read four times. And underneath all of it is the question you do not say out loud: what if this does not fix itself?
It does not fix itself with more of the same practice. It fixes when someone finds the exact skill that is missing and teaches it, directly, week after week.
The Cost Of Waiting
By third grade, every subject is taught through reading. Math word problems, science, social studies — the gap shows up everywhere.
Children learn to hide it. They memorize, they guess, they volunteer less. The struggle stops being visible long before it stops being real.
Skills that take twelve weeks now can take years of remediation after fourth grade. Waiting is the most expensive choice on this page.
You don't need to know exactly what's wrong. That's what the assessment is for — and it happens right after you enroll.
How It Works
Everything a consultation would have covered — level, track, schedule, pod placement — happens inside the program itself, so you can start today.
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Choose your program and complete enrollment in a few minutes. No consultation call, no waiting for a sales email — your seat is held the moment you enroll.
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Your child completes a short reading assessment. We use it to place them on the phonics or comprehension track and match them to a pod of no more than five readers at their level.
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Certified educators lead live small-group sessions, with weekly progress notes in your parent portal and three personalized check-ins across the term.
94%
Parent Satisfaction Rate
75%
Re-Enroll After 12 Weeks
10+
Years of Educational Expertise
Tuition
A reader who is behind in October is usually further behind in June — waiting is the most expensive option on this page. Start with one week, one term, or commit to the full year. Every option enrolls online in minutes, no consultation call required.
Start With One Week
$97
See your child in a real session before committing to the full term.
Regular tuition
$1,500
Summer Rate
$1,200
3 payments of $500 · enroll by Aug 31
The full arc: assessment, pod placement, and twelve weeks of live instruction.
For Families Playing The Long Game
Twelve weeks builds the skill. Six to twelve months is where it becomes who your child is — the kid who picks up a book without being asked.
Reading Acceleration Program
$2,800
or $467/month for 6 months
$5,400
or $450/month for 12 months (our best value)
We understand that every family's financial situation is different. In addition to our payment plans, many families choose to use payment plans for additional flexibility. These options may allow you to spread payments out over time, subject to approval by the provider. Our goal is to make high-quality reading intervention as accessible as possible while helping your child achieve meaningful, lasting reading growth.
Not sure where to start? Book a free 45-minute consultation with Zoe — optional, never required.
The Method
Reading is not caught, it is taught. Our instruction follows the research on how children actually learn to decode and comprehend, delivered live by certified educators.
Readers who are still decoding get an explicit, systematic phonics track. Readers who sound out words but lose the meaning get a comprehension track built on vocabulary, fluency, and retelling.
In a pod of five, every child reads aloud every session and every error gets corrected in the moment. That is the part a recorded app or a class of twenty-five cannot do.
A warm-up, targeted skill instruction, guided reading aloud with immediate feedback, and a short independent task — sixty minutes, live, with a certified educator.
Weekly notes in your parent portal, three personalized progress reports, and access to a leveled digital library so at-home reading matches what they practiced.
“Every child deserves to feel the quiet triumph of finishing a book on their own — and every parent deserves an evening without the reading battle.”
Zoe Ellis · Founder
Certified educator with a decade of classroom experience across DCPS and PGCPS — Science of Reading trained, and the person who designs every pod's plan.
In Their Own Words
Carly used to be too shy to speak. Now she participates in a small group, feels confident, and even takes the lead in class.
Parent: T'auna
Carlee · Phonics Pod · Maryland
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No. You can enroll online in a few minutes. The reading assessment and pod placement happen after enrollment, so nothing about your child's plan depends on a sales call. A 45-minute call is still available if you'd like one.
Kindergarten through fifth grade. Pods are grouped by reading level rather than strictly by grade, so your child works alongside readers who need the same skills.
One live small-group session per week across the twelve weeks, plus roughly 10–15 minutes of at-home reading on most days using the leveled digital library.
That is who this program is built for. Sessions start with skills your child can already succeed at, so the first wins come quickly, and the pod means they are never the only one working on it.
A laptop or tablet with a camera and microphone, and a quiet spot. Everything else — lessons, library, progress notes — lives in the parent portal.
More detail on tuition, refunds, and scheduling lives on the enrollment page.
$1,200 summer tuition · ends August 31