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K-12 literacy, tailored for every reader

Reading practice that actually meets every kid where they are.

Every reader gets a book that hits the exact lesson they're on — from a library aligned to your scope and sequence, or generated on demand for every reader.

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Free for teachers

Sign up, open the Discover Library, assign to your students — for free. No credit card.

Most reading platforms gate the library behind a district contract. We don't. The Free tier is a real classroom, not a trial timer.

  • The full Discover Library, free.

    Sign up as a teacher and the 2,000+ title Discover Library — decodables, Hi-Lo decodables, leveled fiction and non-fiction, read-along videos, and songs — is yours from minute one. Search by curriculum lesson, add titles to a student's library, assign reading practice — all included.

  • No credit card. No district approval.

    Free tier doesn't ask for a card, and it doesn't need to wait on procurement. One classroom, up to 30 students, no expiration.

  • Set up in under 5 minutes.

    Roster with Clever single sign-on, or just paste a list — you're assigning matched reading materials the same period.

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The lesson-alignment difference

Schools tell us the same thing: their library can't keep up with where each student actually is.

Most decodable libraries say "roughly K-2 phonics." Storytime gives every reader a book matched to the exact lesson they're on — three ways.

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Pre-built Discover Library

Find and assign the exact text a lesson needs — in seconds, not a prep period.

The Discover Library holds 2,000+ titles — decodables, Hi-Lo decodables for older readers, leveled fiction and non-fiction beyond the phonics constraint, plus read-along videos and songs — each cross-tagged to the Science-of-Reading scope and sequence you teach. Pick a lesson, see the exact reading materials that fit — so you spend less time differentiating and more time on gains.

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A young reader holding a personalized book whose cover features the same child

On-demand personalized

Generated live for the exact lesson — and the exact reader.

When the library doesn't have the right book for that phonics target — or a reluctant reader needs to see themselves on the page — the AI generates a decodable inside the same scope and sequence in seconds, narrated and illustrated with characters your student chooses. Representation that gets kids reading, on the skill they actually need.

See the generator
An older student reading an age-appropriate Hi-Lo decodable with a teen-adventure cover

On-demand Hi-Lo

Age-respectful stories with the same phonics control.

For older striving readers who still need short-vowel practice but won't open a book about a cat on a mat. Same scope-and-sequence precision, age-appropriate plot, setting, theme.

Hi-Lo for older readers
See the full customization layer — sits on top of UFLI, Wilson, IMSE, and other major Science-of-Reading scope and sequences

Quietly built for the work

Aligned to the scope and sequence your school already teaches.

Awards + recognition

SXSW EDU 2026 Launch Startup Competition Finalist2025 SIIA CODiE Awards Finalist2025 Mom's Choice Awards Gold Recipient2025 Milken-Penn GSE EBPC SemifinalistTCP Youth Empowerment partner

School + community partners

Canopy NepalGateway Christian Academy, MarylandLoyola School ElementaryLondon Achievement TrustVirta InternationalWarrior KidsAmarok Start With Mothers

100,000+

Books created with Storytime AI

2,000+

Titles in the Discover Library

10+

Literacy activity types

5

Science-of-Reading pillars, measured

What's different

Three things only Storytime does this way.

Hear every reader. — Oral reading fluency, scored automatically

Oral reading fluency, scored automatically

Hear every reader.

Students record themselves reading. Storytime transcribes, scores prosody, accuracy, and words-correct-per-minute, then places them in the right text — every time. No more once-a-trimester DIBELS guesswork.

How ORF scoring works
See what's actually working. — Skill Tree analytics across all five pillars

Skill Tree analytics across all five pillars

See what's actually working.

Mastery across phonemic awareness, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension — for every student, in one teacher-friendly view. Not a black-box score; the actual SoR pillars, with the receipts.

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Differentiate without burning out. — Journey Builder for personalized practice

Journey Builder for personalized practice

Differentiate without burning out.

Drag-and-drop a student's literacy journey from books, quizzes, ORF challenges, and creative activities. Or let Storytime build it from your curriculum. Either way, every kid gets the right next thing.

Inside the Journey Builder

See it in action

Three glimpses of the actual platform.

Real screenshots — same UI your teachers (and students) see when they log into Storytime AI. No stylized abstractions.

Storytime book card with literacy-lesson alignment chips, alongside a dropdown to filter the library by literacy program.

Aligned to your scope and sequence

Filter the library by program, grade, or skill — and see which lesson each book unlocks.

Every one of 2,000+ decodable books is tagged against the scope and sequence of each major literacy program. Pick the program your school teaches; see that program's alignment. Multiple views, one library.
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Assignment + remix workflow

Assign, remix, translate, level, or render to PDF — one click each.

Take any book, retitle it for your kid, drop the reading level by a notch, translate to Spanish, or download a print-ready PDF. The whole library is composable.
A custom decodable book featuring a child named Sana learning to play the sitar, illustrated with culturally representative artwork.

Create custom books

Make a book that stars your student. Read it together by recess.

Type a prompt, pick characters that look like your kids, choose a phonics target. Storytime generates a fully illustrated decodable in minutes — yours to assign or print.

How the work flows

Practice. Feedback. Mastery. All visible — to you and to them.

Three live looks inside Storytime: the path the platform builds for each kid, the Skill Tree that tracks where they are across the five pillars, and the library that meets every reader at the level — and the interest — they're at.

Personalized journeys

Every student gets the right next thing.

The Journey Builder strings activities together — decodable, comprehension check, practice game, ORF challenge, mastery check — so every kid hits the next step at the right level.

Skill Tree analytics

See mastery across all five pillars.

Phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension — for every student, in one teacher view. Not a black-box score; the actual SoR pillars, with the receipts.

Library that adapts to each reader

Decodables, Hi-Lo decodables, and creative books — in one shelf.

Every book carries its decodability percentage and lesson alignment. Hi-Lo titles are flagged so older striving readers get age-respectful stories without losing the phonics control they need.

From the field · SETX Cooperative · Liberty, Texas

How SETX Cooperative uses AAC + Storytime AI to publish every student's story

Every student deserves access to the same rich learning experiences as their peers — not simplified substitutes.
Kendra Caswell — Speech Pathologist and Assistive-Technology Lead, SETX Cooperative

Students with autism and language-based communication needs struggled to develop the characters, settings, and details that bring creative writing to life — and their finished illustrated books rarely made it onto the hallway walls alongside their peers'.

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  • Time from a student's AAC story selections to a fully illustrated, narrated read-along book

    Under 1 minute end-to-end

    Baseline: Not feasible without extensive adult mediation — students could not produce illustrated finished books at session pace.

  • Stories completed in a single creative-writing period by a previously reluctant writer

    5 stories in a row (the lesson ended because the period did, not because she ran out of ideas)

    Baseline: Often zero — perfectionism around 'doing it wrong' prevented finishing a single story.

  • Student work displayed on the school's hallway walls alongside peers'

    Students now request printed copies to take home and add to the hallway prints

    Baseline: Rare — special-education creative writing did not produce illustrated finished books for display.

Built for everyone in the funnel

One platform, three ways in.

Literacy glossary

The Science of Reading, explained.

Plain-language definitions of every term educators, parents, and district leaders encounter — written so you (and ChatGPT, and Perplexity, and Claude) can quote them.

Start with: What is the Science of Reading?

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