Read Anything with Confidence
Like Duolingo, but for Read Anything with Confidence. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
Free during early access · No credit card · iPhone & Android
Key ideas in Read Anything with Confidence
- Lack of a visual anchor causes eyes to wander when focus dips
- Regression is the involuntary movement of eyes back to previous words
- A pacer sets a consistent rhythm that prevents stalling
- Physical guides reduce the time spent 'searching' for the next word
- The brain shifts resources from 'meaning' to 'navigation' when lost
- Momentum is required to hold complex ideas in working memory
- Why readers unintentionally repeat sentences
- Using a continuous smooth motion with a pointer across the whole line
- Softening your gaze to take in groups of words rather than single points
- How a pacer affects reading speed
- The return sweep definition
- Regression causes
- Precision in the drop
- Pacer effects
- Regression definition
- Comprehension impact
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Read Anything with Confidence the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Imagine your eyes are hikers on a trail who suddenly stumble backward into their own footprints. What is the technical name for this involuntary backward jump?
Get it right to open this lesson and 83 more in the app.
Where Read Anything with Confidence takes you
Stop getting stuck on tricky words and start finishing books, emails, and signs with ease. Learn the secrets to smooth reading and how to avoid the most common mistakes beginners make.
- 1
Get Through Your First Page
- Moving your eyes without getting lost
- What to do when you hit a wall
- Reading for the big idea first
- Using pictures to solve hard words
- 2
Spotting the Sneaky Word Traps
- Words that look the same but sound different
- The silent letters that trip everyone up
- Why 'the' and 'of' are harder than they look
- Handling words that don't follow the rules
- Commonly swapped letters like b, d, p, and q
- Breaking long words into bite-sized pieces
- 3
Reading in the Real World
- Scanning a menu for what you want
- Understanding street signs and warnings
- Getting the point of a quick text message
- 4
Making Sense of What You Read
- Asking yourself questions as you go
- Noticing clues in punctuation
- Finding the 'who' and the 'where'
- Guessing what happens next
- Knowing when to slow down or speed up
- 5
The Science of How Letters Work
- How your brain turns shapes into sounds
- The history of our strange spelling
- Building a massive word memory
5 sections · 21 units · 84 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
You pick the voice
Read Anything with Confidence is taught in the The Storyteller style: every lesson is a story. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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