Calm literacy for ages 6–9 — with a parent dashboard that shows progress, word by word.
Evidence-informed · Word-level insights · Five quiet minutes
Dyslexia doesn't mean your child isn't bright. It means the tools they were handed weren't built for the way their mind works. Captain's Words was.
See plansRead the methodNo story, no reason to come back. They try it once and never ask for it again. Progress stalls within a fortnight.
You know they're struggling — but not exactly which words, which letters, or whether anything is genuinely getting better.
The five to fifteen minutes of focused daily practice a dyslexic child needs simply isn't possible in a classroom of thirty.
Most apps reward fast tapping. Your child needs to slow down and look. Most apps make the problem worse.
Captain's Words is calm by design. Soft daylight, gentle motion, and characters children want to help — not arcade noise or shame-based feedback. Learning sits inside a world that feels safe to enter every day.
Structured intervention programmes deliver curriculum sequences and specialist-led sessions. Captain's Words plays a different role: daily engagement, word-level visibility, and calm dyslexia-friendly spelling practice that complements what you already run.
Calm daily practice they'll actually open — without worksheets, shame, or another battle at the kitchen table.
A class view of who is practising and improving — without extra planning or complicated setup.
Word-level progress data you can show in reviews — complementing your existing literacy provision.
Calm dyslexia-friendly literacy practice for families at home — or a school licence with onboarding support, not a cheap spelling app.
Family plans are self-serve with secure Stripe checkout. School pilots can subscribe in your school dashboard or request an invoice after we agree your roll — already a parent? Log in to skip signup.
Captain's Words was built by a father for his nine-year-old son, who has dyslexia. These numbers are pulled directly from his dashboard — not a study, not a pilot. One real family, eight weeks of daily play.
After each session, check progress from any device. Not vague encouragement — word-level data on what's hard and what's improving.
Words in your child's reading level, colour-coded from mastered to still learning — refreshed after every session.
Words that need extra practice surface automatically — so you know what to celebrate and what still needs calm repetition.
A 14-day view of when they played, recent sessions, and how word progress is moving over recent weeks.
The dashboard lives at its own URL. Check it on your phone on the commute. No app to install.
Word progress and session history in one calm view — useful when you talk with teachers or track practice at home.
Illustrative dashboard preview — example metrics from one family, not guaranteed outcomes.
Each play session blends missing letter, spelling, and read aloud across several words — calm pacing, emotionally safe feedback, and a world your child wants to return to.
A word appears with one letter missing. The keyboard shows only plausible choices — so your child thinks, doesn't guess. Wrong tries stay calm — never shame.
The whole word, typed unaided. This is what builds the pathway that makes a word stick — and every attempt is logged to your parent dashboard.
On longer sessions, your child reads a short line aloud — with skip available if speech is hard that day. Finish the voyage, help the person, and the world moves forward.
Each session, your child reads to fix something real — a map, a route, a signal. Places they help stay changed on the journey. That's the voyage.
