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Reading is a code: letters stand for sounds, and words are sounds pushed together. A child who knows that s says "sss" can start reading sat; a child who only knows the name "ess" can't. That's why every science-of-reading classroom starts with pure letter sounds — short and clean, with no "uh" tacked on the end ("t", not "tuh"), because "tuh-a-puh" never blends into tap.
Order matters too. Starting with s, a, t, p instead of A-B-C means real words appear after just four sounds. Read with Glass teaches exactly this way: each group of levels introduces a few new sounds, your child meets them, hunts them, and immediately uses them in real words. Nothing is drilled in isolation for weeks.
Letter sounds are the very first levels on the map — no setup, no account.
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Sounds first. A child who knows "sss" can start reading the word sat; a child who knows "ess" can only spell it out loud. Letter names are useful later (and the alphabet song means most kids absorb them anyway), but reading is built from sounds. That's why Read with Glass voices every letter as its pure sound — "mmm", not "em" — from the very first level.
Not alphabetical! Most systematic phonics programs start with s, a, t, p — because those four sounds already make real words (sat, tap, pat, at). Read with Glass uses that classic order, adding a few letters per group, so your child is blending real words within the first handful of levels instead of waiting to finish the alphabet.
Blending — pushing sounds together into words (s…a…t → sat). It's the single biggest step in learning to read, and it's where many kids stall if they only ever drilled isolated sounds. In Read with Glass, blending levels start as soon as the first four sounds are met; see the blending sounds games page for how it works and how to help at home.