UpOnly Learning presents
The Stories You Follow
Reading together, word by word Grades K–6
Read-along stories for kids, with audio
Press play and read along as each word lights up.
Open a picture book and press the ear. The device reads it aloud while each word lights up, and your student's hero hops from word to word like a bouncing ball. Slow it down to one word at a time, or speed it up to 200 words per minute.
- Beach Day free in full
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- English, Spanish and Portuguese
- Computer, tablet and phone
Pick a book and read along
UpOnly Learning presentsThe Stories You FollowPick a book
Open a book, then press the ear. The words light up as they are read, and your hero hops along.
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Beach Day
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Build the best sandcastle on the beach before the Sunset Fair.
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Road Trip USA: East Coast
Members get every bookA camper van trip up the East Coast, from Florida to Maine.
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Lake Camp-Out
Members get every bookTents, canoes and a campfire under the stars.
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Road Trip USA: Heartland
Members get every bookThe van rolls through the South and the middle of the country, up to the Great Lakes.
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Amusement Park
Members get every bookRides, games and one very big Ferris wheel.
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Road Trip USA: West
Members get every bookMountains, deserts and the Pacific, then a flight to Alaska and Hawaii.
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Around the World
Members get every bookA plane trip through all 7 continents.
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First Day of School
Members get every bookA new class, a new friend and a big surprise.
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Ocean Voyage
Members get every bookSail a big ship across all five oceans, then home.
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The Big Game
Members get every bookPractice, teamwork and the last shot of the game.
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Space Explorers
Members get every bookBlast off to the Moon and every planet, then home.
Why it works: following the words while hearing them read is part of the fluency practice that helps word reading and comprehension. See the research
How it works
Pick a book
Picture books by Dr. Evan J. Hasson, from Beach Day to Space Explorers, each with a painted picture on every page.
Press the ear
The device's own voice reads the page aloud, in English, Spanish or Portuguese. Choose the voice you like best.
Follow the hero
The spoken word lights up yellow and the student's hero hops onto it. Prefer something simpler? Switch to a yellow dot.
A speed for every reader
Choose from 5 to 200 words per minute with the slider or the − and + buttons, even in the middle of a page. The new speed starts with the next word.
5 to 59
One word at a time, with a pause after each word, for students who point and say each word.
60 to 99
Slow and clear, one sentence at a time.
100 to 149
A calm storyteller. The read-along starts at 100.
150 to 200
Fast, for confident readers and for reading along in a second language.
For comparison, many students read about 100 words a minute aloud by the end of 2nd grade, and about 146 in 5th and 6th grade (Hasbrouck and Tindal, 2017).
Ways to read together
Tap a word
Tap any word to hear the page from there. Good for a word a student wants to hear again.
Keys too
Space bar plays and pauses. The arrow keys turn the page.
Page by page
Pages turn on their own while it reads, and The End waits at the end of every book.
Free and members
Beach Day is free from the first page to The End, with every feature and no account. Members read along with every book, pick which student is reading, keep each student's place in the account and earn reward points for reading.
