reading, decoded.
essays, research notes and product stories from the team building wobble.
sound effects and mood music: the page as a small theatre
Wobble now scores the book as it reads, doors creak, owls hoot, and a quiet pad lifts under a tender scene. Here's how it works and why we built it ourselves.
read →one paragraph per page: less to look at, more to read
Wobble's book mode now shows a single paragraph at a time. A small change with a surprisingly large effect on focus, stamina, and the courage to keep going.
read →small fix, big calm: a class timer that actually stays running
A quiet bug had reading timers resetting whenever a child tapped a button. We tracked it down. Here's what was happening and why timers are now boringly reliable.
read →building reading stamina: from five minutes to fifty
Stamina isn't discipline. It's the slow accumulation of small successes. Here's a week-by-week plan for growing a child's reading endurance without breaking them.
read →working memory and reading: why the words seem to disappear
For many dyslexic readers, the problem isn't the eyes or the sounds, it's working memory. Here's why sentences dissolve mid-read and what helps.
read →screens vs paper: why the physical book still matters
Wobble works with real pages, not screens. Here's why keeping the book in the child's hands is central to how we think about assistive reading.
read →the senco's quick guide to assistive reading tech
A practical, non-judgemental guide for SENCOs choosing between the tools on the market: what to look for, what to avoid, and how to trial fairly.
read →how voices work (and why we made our own)
Why off-the-shelf reading voices weren't good enough for a children's book, and how we built the Wobble cast, Emma, James, Sophie, Lily, George, Arthur and the rest, in-house.
read →ten minutes a day: a reading routine that actually sticks
Forget the hour-long homework battle. The evidence, and every SENCO we've talked to, points the same way: short, daily, low-stakes.
read →why letters wobble (and what actually helps)
A short, jargon-free tour of dyslexia: what's happening in the brain, what doesn't help, and the small interventions with the strongest evidence.
read →character voices: turning a page into a play
How Wobble splits dialogue between narrator and characters so a chapter sounds like an audiobook cast, and why that lifts comprehension.
read →spotting dyslexia early: signs at 4, 6 and 8
Most diagnoses come too late. Here are the age-by-age signals teachers and parents can act on long before a formal assessment.
read →the dyslexia-friendly classroom: 12 small changes
You don't need a budget or a policy rewrite. Twelve low-cost moves that make any classroom measurably easier for dyslexic pupils.
read →homework without tears: a parent's playbook
If reading homework is wrecking your evenings, the problem isn't your child or you. Here are the moves that actually lower the temperature.
read →irlen tints, in plain english
Coloured overlays aren't pseudoscience for everyone, for some readers they cut visual stress in half. Here's what the evidence says and how to try one.
read →audiobooks are reading. tell the doubters.
There is still a strange snobbery around listening to books. The cognitive science is unambiguous, and for dyslexic readers, audio is a lifeline, not a shortcut.
read →what we learned from 50 classrooms
Patterns from teacher interviews, what got used daily, what got abandoned, and the single feature every SENCO asked for.
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