Set up in under 5 minutes.
Paste a class list and you're assigning practice the same period. School and district plans add roster sync (Clever, ClassLink, OneRoster) set up during onboarding.
For educators · free to start
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Set up in under 5 minutes.
Just paste a class list — no IT ticket, no roster setup — and 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 Storytime AI to publish every student's story
For many of my students, this was the first time they saw their ideas displayed like every other child's work in the hallway. The illustrations gave my students immense pride and ownership in their writing.
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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BOOK → READY
From AAC selections to fully illustrated read-along.
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STORIES / SESSION
One reluctant student kept going until time ran out.
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SHARABLE STORIES
Students request printed copies to take home and share.
A real week, end to end
Five steps. Twenty minutes. Then you're back to teaching.
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Roster
Paste your class list and go — roster sync on district plans.
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Assess
Adaptive placement test — 8 to 12 minutes, identifies exactly where each kid is.
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Assign
Auto-pilot builds journeys per student. You override anything you want.
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Monitor
Skill Tree shows mastery across the five pillars; recovery actions one click away.
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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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One classroom. Free. Under 5 minutes to set up.
No credit card. No district approval needed.