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Roster with Clever single sign-on, or just paste a list. Either way, you're assigning practice the same period — additional rostering providers in development on request.
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Less prep. More signal. Every reader, met where they are.
Sign up free as a teacher and the Discover Library — 2,000+ titles spanning 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. No credit card. No district approval.
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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.
What you get
Built for the realities of a teacher's week.
Aligned to your scope and sequence.
Whatever literacy program your school has chosen, Storytime aligns to its scope and sequence — without forcing a forklift change to what your team has already learned.
Hear every reader, every week.
ORF challenges record student audio and score it for accuracy + WCPM. You see the data; the kid sees a celebration.
Differentiate without burning out.
Journey Builder lets you compose per-student paths from 2,000+ books, 10+ game types, and AI-scored quizzes. Or let auto-pilot do it.
From a real classroom · 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.
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'.
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.
A real week, end to end
Five steps. Twenty minutes. Then you're back to teaching.
01
Roster
Clever single sign-on, or paste-and-go.
02
Assess
Adaptive placement test — 8 to 12 minutes, identifies exactly where each kid is.
03
Assign
Auto-pilot builds journeys per student. You override anything you want.
04
Monitor
Skill Tree shows mastery across the five pillars; recovery actions one click away.
05
Intervene
Practice activities (your interventions) flow as 'Special Missions' — top priority for the student.
About the authors
Written and edited by the Storytime AI founding team.
Brian Carlson
Co-founder & CEO
Co-founder and CEO of Storytime AI. Leads the company from Baltimore, building a literacy platform that meets every reader where they are — anchored to the Science of Reading.
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Scott Quinlan
Co-founder & CTO
Co-founder and CTO of Storytime AI. Owns engineering, product infrastructure, and the agentic growth pipeline — from the platform's AI generation engine to the structured-literacy content surface district leaders evaluate.
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Kate Dwyer
Co-founder & CMO
Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer at Storytime AI. Translates Science-of-Reading research and product capability into language teachers, parents, and district leaders can act on. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area.
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