• Joint Attention & Social Engagement:  The ability to respond to and engage in shared, enjoyable experiences including looking to others to understand how they feel about their experiences and imitating others to learn new skills.

• Theory of Mind & Social / Emotional Reciprocity: The ability to recognize and interpret the thoughts, perspectives, intentions, and emotions of others to predict their behavior; Understanding emotions through descriptions of body language and facial expressions.

• Central Coherence:  Understanding the central tenets of a passage and creating meaning from text details; the ability to integrate details in order to understand the “big picture” of a passage.

• Executive Function: The ability to organize information and thoughts for coherency, self-monitor for comprehension, and execute plans of action.

• Restricted Interests & Motivation:  Abnormally intense preoccupation with specific interest areas or activities which impact motivation to read non-preferred text or results in getting stuck on words or phrases.

• Prior Knowledge:  The ability to apply relevant background knowledge to make global and abstract connections in text.

• Literal (vs. Abstract) Thinking:  Focus on factual information such as events and actual objects or people in the text and an absence of focus on concepts and generalizations often confused by a lack of understanding idioms, irony, figures of speech, innuendo, and sarcasm.

• Pragmatics:  The ability to understand language and communication in social contexts and thus predict character intentions and behaviors.

• Repetitive Patterns of Behavior: The desire for predictability that results in rigid adherence to schedules, routines, and thinking in an attempt to create “sameness"

• Language, Communication & Vocabulary:  The ability to understand the complexities of language, communication, and vocabulary to comprehend text.

• Language, Communication & Vocabulary:  The ability to understand the complexities of language, communication, and vocabulary to comprehend text.

  
  

  
  

Stories come with comprehension question and activities to test their understanding. It also features recommendations based on kids reading levels and interests and allow them to track their reading progress along the way. Parents and teachers can use the app’s reporting feature to track kids reading progress, monitor their performance, view scores,  time spent reading and many more.