Little Stories Pro

Little Stories Pro includes 82 engaging stories designed to strengthen speech, language, and literacy skills, each supported by detailed curriculum materials and colorful, full-page illustrations.

for iPad

Little Stories Pro is only available on the App Store for iPad and is not part of the Little Bee Hive Membership.

For Speech, Language & Literacy

Little Stories Pro builds speech, language, and literacy skills through little stories—each with vibrant illustrations and built-in support for articulation, grammar, vocabulary, comprehension, and phonemic awareness.

Check out the video overview and see how Little Stories Pro can make learning more effective, meaningful, and fun.

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Research-based Curriculum

Little Stories Pro draws on a wealth of research and is designed to support reading fluency and comprehension as well as receptive and expressive language objectives.

Reading & Literacy

Phonemic awareness
Reading fluency
Reading comprehension
Story structure awareness
Story tradition and genre exploration

Reading & Literacy

Attention and listening
Vocabulary acquisition
Story structure
Story comprehension
Question processing

Expressive Language Skills

Speech production
Story sequencing
Story retelling
Question answering
Social communication

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Each story is exactly 100 words.

A child’s language and literacy development is a big deal—for all of us! So why do we start with something as small as a 100-word story?

Simple & Manageable

For one thing, it keeps a story simple and manageable. A child quickly reaches “the end” and feels a sense of accomplishment right away. But it’s more than that.

When we kept a story small, we realized that structures stood out and speech practice focused. Little felt so very big!

Perfect For Practicing & Testing

100-word stories are also great for:

Practicing reading fluency
Measuring reading accuracy
Assessing speech fluency
Facilitating repeated reading exercises

Carefully crafted stories that do it all.

Whether you’re practicing sounds or diving into stories—these stories build speech, language, and literacy in fun, flexible ways.

Play Story Audio

Read along with the story audio or just listen. This option is great for beginners.

Tongue Twisters

Each story has a fun and creative tongue twister for fun, focused sound practice.

Flashcards

Generate flashcards from words in the story that need extra practice.

Story Text Settings

Bold the phonemic targets or challenge words or select early reader format for for shorter line lengths.

Test Fluency

Mark errors for reading, vocabulary, or speech for follow-up learning and review.

Comprehension Activities

Practice story retell, sequencing, WH questions and additional questions about story comprehension.

Data Collection

Track and measure reading, speech, and vocabulary progress over time.

Coloring Activity

Color each story illustration in the app or print coloring pages for homework.

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Little Stories with a Lot

With targeted sounds woven into natural language, our stories offer meaningful practice at the story level to help children build confidence and mastery in their speech.

Saturated with Specific Sounds

Each story is sound saturated with at least 20 instances of the target sound. Current phonemic targets include:

l /l/
l blends
r /r/
r blends

s /s/
s blend
sth (voiceless) /θ/
th (voiced) /ð/

Leveled for Reading

All stories in Little Stories Pro are leveled according to their narrative complexity, vocabulary difficulty, and age appropriateness.

Within these levels (A, B & C), the stories are sorted according to their Flesch-Kincaid scores.

Written for Growth and Development

The stories are categorized into 26 themes that teach a variety of concepts. Easily sort all the stories by title, theme, phonemic target, and reading level.

Story Categories Include:

Communicating with Others
Having Fun with Others
Having Compassion for Others
Being Kind & Helping Others
Accepting Help from Others
Working as a Team
Working Independently
Following Instructions
Staying with a Task
Doing Hard Things
Trying Something New
Overcoming Fears
Being Trustworthy

Fixing Your Mistakes
Making Decisions
Working Out Conflicts
Appreciating Differences
Using Your Imagination
Thinking Creatively
Learning From Nature
Appreciating Beauty
Using Your Talents
Exploring and Discovering
Funny Stories
Rogue Hero Stories
Holiday Stories

Practice with Flashcards

Reviewing the words in a story before you read can help increase reading comprehension, reading fluency and improve speech production.

Select which words you would like to target (sight words, phonemic target words, or challenge words) and practice the words in the flashcards activity. You can also generate custom flash cards through the error-tracking feature.

Easily Track Errors

Record the child reading the 100-word story without interruption. Then, play back the recording and mark their errors.

Marking errors for reading, vocabulary, or speech can be done easily for follow-up learning and review.

Words correct per minute (WCPM) is calculated automatically based on the errors marked.

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Comprehension Activities

Each little story comes with a complete package of learning activities designed to target a range of speech, language, and literacy objectives.

Story Retell

Sequecing

WH Questions

Story Talk

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Story Retell

The story retell provides a wealth of information about a child’s narrative abilities. Record the child retelling the story. Then, listen to the recording to score the child’s use of story structure and expressive language.

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Story Structure

Evaluate the following elements of story structure—character, setting, problem, events, and solution—while targeting narrative skills alongside speech and language goals.

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Expressive Language

Evaluate and strengthen key features of expressive language within meaningful story contexts, including:

Nouns & Pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives & Adverbs
Prepositions
Delivery

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Sequencing

The sequencing activity teaches story structure by prompting the child to organize four story segments. When a child is able to put narrative elements in order, a text becomes more than random details and occurrences—it becomes a story.

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WH Questions

Evaluate and strengthen key features of expressive language within meaningful story contexts, including:

Who is the story about?
Where & When does it take place?
What is the problem or complication?
How is the problem solved?

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Story Talk

The story talk activity provides 5 question cards for each story. These questions test story understanding beyond the basic elements of story as highlighted in the WH section.

Story Talk has questions that...

Involve searching the text for answers.
Require inferential thinking.
Let the reader express their opinion.
Highlight the reader’s experience.
Invite readers to explore narratives.

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Track Progress with Ease

We put data at your fingertips. Collect session dates, checklists, statistics, and graphs to help you track and measure reading, speech, and vocabulary progress over time.

Student Dashboard

Get a quick snapshot of student performance with easy-to-read graphs showing the percentage of phonemes correct and an overall intelligibility rating for each student.

Detailed Student Results

See a clear, organized view of each student’s performance. Track accuracy by sound, monitor intelligibility, and review responses across activities—all in one place to support data-driven therapy decisions.

Reading Accuracy
Reading errors
Vocabulary errors
Speech errors

Words correct per minute
Review the recording
Edit the results

Valuable Insight With Session Details

The saved session details puts all your assessment scores in one place. Easily review performance across story structure, expressive language, WH questions, and sequencing—plus listen to recordings, edit retell results, and identify key areas for intervention.

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Creative Coloring Fun

Bring each story illustration to life with color, giving students a fun, interactive way to engage with each story. Tap to color and watch creativity bloom with every swipe!

Print or Email Coloring Pages

Coloring pages can also be printed or emailed as a fun, low-prep homework activity that reinforces learning in a playful way.

Each page ties into the story content, helping students review characters, settings, and language concepts while expressing their creativity outside of therapy.

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Common Core Supported

Little Stories are written to support many of the Common Core standards for grades K–3, helping students build foundational skills in language, literacy, and storytelling.

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an educational initiative in the United States that details what K–12 students should know in English language arts and mathematics at the end of each grade.

Common Core Standards Our Little Stories Target:

Kindergarten

Reading: Literature

RL.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

RL.K.2 With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.

RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

RL.K.4 Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

RL.K.7 With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).

Speaking & Listening

SL.K.2 Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.

Language

L.K.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

L.K.1.B Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.

L.K.1.E Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with).

Grade 1

Reading: Literature

RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

RL.1.2 Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

RL.1.3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

RL.1.7 Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

RL.1.10 With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

Reading: Foundational Skills

RF.1.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

RF.1.4.A Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

RF.1.4.B Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

RF.1.4.C Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

Speaking & Listening

SL.1.2 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

SL.1.4 Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.

SL.1.6 Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation.

Language

L.1.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

L.1.1.B Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.

L.1.1.D Use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns (e.g., I, me, my; they, them, their, anyone, everything).

L.1.1.E Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future (e.g., Yesterday I walked home; Today I walk home; Tomorrow I will walk home).

L.1.1.F Use frequently occurring adjectives.

L.1.1.I Use frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., during, beyond, toward).

L.1.4.A Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

Grade 2

Reading: Literature

RL.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

RL.2.3 Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

RL.2.4 Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.

RL.2.5 Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

RL.2.6 Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.

RL.2.7 Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

RL.2.9 Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.

RL.2.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

Reading: Foundational Skills

RF.2.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

RF.2.4.A Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

RF.2.4.B Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

RF.2.4.C Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

Speaking & Listening

SL.2.1.C Ask for clarification and further explanation as needed about the topics and texts under discussion.

SL.2.2 Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

SL.2.4 Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.

SL.2.5 Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

SL.2.6 Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. (See grade 2 Language standards 1 and 3 here for specific expectations.)

Language

L.2.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

L.2.1.D Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, hid, told).

L.2.3 Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

L.2.4.E Use glossaries and beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases.

L.2.5 Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.

Grade 3

Reading: Literature

RL.3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

RL.3.2 Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

RL.3.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

RL.3.7 Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting)

RL.3.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Reading: Foundational Skills

RF.3.4 Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

RF.3.4.A Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

RF.3.4.B Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

RF.3.4.C Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

Speaking & Listening

SL.3.4 Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.

SL.3.5 Create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems that demonstrate fluid reading at an understandable pace; add visual displays when appropriate to emphasize or enhance certain facts or details.

SL.3.6 Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification. (See grade 3 Language standards 1 and 3 here for specific expectations.)

Language

L.3.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

L.3.1.D Form and use regular and irregular verbs.

L.3.1.I Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.

L.3.2.D Form and use possessives.

L.3.3 Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.

L.3.4.D Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.

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Our Little Stories are packed with a lot of POWER…

We could have stopped at simply creating a collection of engaging stories that targeted specific sounds, but we knew narrative was packed with powerful learning potential—so we turned our sound-specific stories into teachers.

As you learn to work with narrative through Little Stories Pro your teaching will strengthen and your confidence will soar. Perhaps more important than anything else, your learner will soar with you into the wonderful world of story.

That's the power of Little Stories.

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Your questions, answered

Is Little Stories Pro included in the Little Bee Hive membership?

No. Little Stories Pro is only available as a one-time purchase through the Apple App Store.

Is Little Stories Pro appropriate for all ages?

Little Stories Pro was designed for school-age children (ages 6–10) to strengthen reading, literacy, receptive language, and expressive language skills. The colorful illustrations and variety of activities keep learning engaging and fun. Older children may also enjoy using the stories to practice and refine their speech production skills.

How do these stories target speech sounds?

Each 100-word story is packed with the target sound, used at least 20 times throughout the story! This helps children practice their sound in many different words and contexts while getting meaningful, repeated practice.

What sounds do the stories target?

The stories currently focus on the L, R, S, and TH sounds, practiced in all word positions and in consonant clusters.

How many stories are included?

Little Stories Pro includes 82 carefully crafted stories that help children build speech, language, and literacy skills.

How long are the stories?

Each story is exactly 100 words long—just the right length to keep children interested and feeling successful. The short format helps them focus on their sounds while building reading fluency, accuracy, and confidence through repeated practice.

Can I try Little Stories Pro for free?

No. Little Stories Pro is available as a one-time purchase, and a free trial version is not currently offered.

Is Little Stories Pro available as a one-time purchase?

Yes. Little Stories Pro is only available as a one-time purchase through the Apple App Store.

Is Little Stories Pro available on other platforms like Android?

No. Little Stories Pro is only available for iOS, (iPad only).

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iPad only

Little Stories Pro is only available on the App Store for iPad and is not part of the Little Bee Hive Membership.