Playtime Phonetics · phonics & Latin roots
Reading, but make it play.
Playtime Phonetics turns reading drills into stories kids actually want to sit through — real phonics and Latin roots, taught by a cast of arctic friends who each own a corner of the curriculum.
Phonics that sticks
Every sound, blend and digraph belongs to a character. Kids practise it forty times because they’re helping a friend — not filling in a worksheet.
Latin-root cheat codes
Teach one root and you’ve unlocked thirty words. Our polar-bear mentors turn “hard” vocabulary into something kids can take apart on their own.
A cast kids love
Twelve arctic heroes and one menacing-but-harmless orca. The lesson sticks because the friend teaching it is there for it.
The cast
Thirteen reasons to open a book
Penguins in bow ties, sea lions in sweatpants, wise old polar bears — and Bruce, the orca who keeps eating the ends of everyone’s words.
Watch
Animated lessons, coming to YouTube
Short, stimulating episodes built around a single skill — a stuck hat, a secret “sh,” a root that carries. The channel and the first shorts are in production now.
First episode in production
From the blog
Notes from the reading table
Built for classrooms, camps & EdTech partners
Playtime Phonetics is a real curriculum with a friendly face. If you run a program, a platform, or a classroom and want to talk about bringing the characters to your learners, we’d love to hear from you.