British English · Starting to read
The clock went back. Noah can see a market. Grandma can see it too. Look at the big yellow lemons!
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Language-aware reading
Stories that grow with your child — in every language they read.
Choose one of three reading stages and StoryStar writes the same adventure for the reader they are today, in the language they are actually reading.
Built around how children learn to read
Not just translated.
Made for how they learn.
Every language teaches reading differently.
So StoryStar doesn't simply make an English story easier or harder and translate it.
Choose your child's reading stage and StoryStar adapts the vocabulary, sentence structure and early-reading support to the language they're actually reading.
- 3 reading stages
- 11 languages
- Language-aware reading support
Powered by StoryStar Language-Aware Reading
StoryStar adapts how a story is written — not just what language it's written in.
See the difference
One adventure.
Written for the reader they are today.
The adventure stays the same. The reading support changes with the language.
Reading stage
Simple words and short sentences.
Sounds, familiar words and gradually longer sentences.
The story stays the same. The language grows with the reader.
Explore the Story LibraryGrows with them
The same adventure can grow with your child.
Stage 1
Starting to read
Simple words and short sentences.
Stage 2
Learning to read
Building sounds, words and reading confidence.
Stage 3
Confident Reader
The complete story, with richer language and detail.
And because children don't learn to read English, Italian, Arabic or Spanish in the same way, neither does StoryStar.
The story and pictures stay the same. The language grows with the reader.
British English
Sounds → words → sentences
StoryStar can support early decoding through appropriate English sound patterns, familiar words and increasingly complex sentences.
Italian
Syllables → words → fluency
StoryStar adapts to Italian's more regular sound-letter relationships and natural syllable patterns.
Arabic
Letters → sounds → connected reading
StoryStar adapts reading support to Arabic script, sounds and word structures.
Different languages.
Different paths into reading.
One StoryStar adventure.
Available in 11 languages
- British English
- American English
- Spanish
- French
- German
- Portuguese
- Italian
- Arabic
- Dutch
- Turkish
- Swedish
Stories they can grow into
A favourite story doesn't have to be left behind.
The adventure they once loved hearing you read can become the story they sound out themselves — and later, the story they curl up and read alone.
- Starting to read
- Learning to read
- Confident Reader
Stories that grow with your child — in every language they read.
Questions families ask about reading stages
How the same adventure adapts to your child's reading and their language.
Children don't learn to read every language the same way. StoryStar writes each story for your child's reading stage using the reading patterns of the language they are reading, rather than translating one English version.
No. The adventure, the characters and the illustrations stay exactly the same. Only the words change, so a favourite story can grow with your child.
British English, American English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish, Swedish and Arabic, including right-to-left reading for Arabic.
Yes. Bilingual editions keep both versions of the same adventure side by side, each written to feel natural in its own language.