For schools
Every child gets a different book.
Nobody gets a different curriculum.
StoryBreak makes a decodable reader for one child, at the exact stage they are at, out of the sounds your school has actually taught. Twenty-eight children, twenty-eight books, one sequence.
A teacher with a school email address can set this up in a minute. No purchase order needed to start.
A teacher sees a class. Never a child.
An aggregate over a small group is not anonymous, so a class under five children reports nothing at all rather than a rounded number. Rounding a one to a five is a lie; suppressing it is a fact.
What that means, exactly
The rules, in full
- What a teacher sees
- Books read, minutes, which sounds the class is asking for help with, and where the class is working. Counts only.
- What a teacher never sees
- The book, the sentence, the title. A child’s reading material is theirs.
- How a child joins
- A parent types a code the teacher read out. A school cannot reach into a family’s account and take a child.
- Named detail
- Requires that parent’s explicit consent, recorded with a date, withdrawn in one tap. Leaving a class withdraws it too, and rejoining does not bring it back.
- What we hold about a child
- A first name, an age band, a stage. Never a surname, a birthday, a photo or a voice.
- Ads and analytics
- None, and none in the reading screen. Nothing sold, ever.
What a school actually gets
Written to your sequence, not ours
Tell us the program and the sound set follows it. The numbers you get back are the three that change what you do next week: what went home, who is reading, and which sounds the class is still asking about.
- Phonics Plus, InitiaLit, Little Learners, Sounds-Write and five more
- A child part-way through a stage gets a book for where they are
- Every word checked before anybody sees it — the gate fails closed
- Printable for the book bag, A4, no watermark
- Works with the wifi off, because the books are made on the device
What it costs, against what it replaces
Move the sliders. The comparison is copying take-home readers, because that is a line your business manager can check on an invoice today.
StoryBreak, a year
$960
A whole school · $4.00 a child, for every child on the roll
Copying the take-home readers
$2,160
90 children × 40 books × 6 sides × 10c a side. Before toner, the machine lease, or anyone’s time at the copier.
The comparison is only the copying, and only for the year levels that actually take a decodable home — not the reader sets you have already bought, and not the time somebody spends collating them. If the honest sum did not favour us we would change the price rather than the sums.
And every one of those books is a different book, matched to the sounds that child has been taught. The copied ones are the same twelve titles the school has had for years.
Licences
One class
$6a child, a year
A teacher who wants to try it properly, without asking anybody. Minimum 30 children.
- Every child in the class, at their own stage
- Class counts — books read, sounds the class is asking about
- Printable books for the book bag
- Set up in a minute, cancel any time
A whole school
$4a child, a year
Every child on the roll, every teacher, one invoice. Minimum 150 children.
- Everything in One class, for everybody
- Every teacher, invited by email
- Counts by class and across the school
- Procurement pack, ST4S answers, a named contact
Prices in AUD, ex GST. Invoiced annually, or paid by card. A school that has run out of seats is told so plainly rather than quietly cut off.
A term, measured
What one class produces in ten weeks
A pilot that cannot be judged is a pilot nobody renews. These are the same numbers whether they flatter us or not.
- 01
Week one
A teacher sets up a class and reads a six-character code out at pick-up. Parents put their own child in. Nothing else is asked of anybody.
- 02
Weeks two to nine
Books go home. Families read them and print them. The class counts accumulate: books read, minutes, and the sounds children are tapping for help with.
- 03
Week ten
You have how many books went home, how many children read at all, and which sounds the class is still asking about — against the same class’s week-one baseline. Take it to the leadership meeting or bin it. We would rather you had the real number.
For whoever signs it off
Straight answers, and the pack
Data flow diagram, the fields we hold and the ones we refuse, hosting and sub-processors, retention and deletion, breach process, insurance, and our answers to the Safer Technologies 4 Schools questions.
- Australian company, The School of Play. Data hosted in Australia.
- Books are made on the device. A child can read with the wifi off.
- We hold an adult’s email and a child’s first name, age band and stage.
- ST4S: assessment not yet completed. We say so until it is.
- Cancel and we delete on request, not on a schedule that suits us.
What StoryBreak does not claim: a reading-age gain. We do not assess children and will not pretend a home-reading app is a screener. Ask any vendor who does to show you the study.
Start with one class
You do not need permission to try it. Make a class, read the code out at pick-up, and see what comes back.