The Peabody blog
Free AI stories, reading levels and the words your kid is learning
Plain answers for parents and teachers from Peabody (peabody.kids), a free AI story generator and reading app for kids. How it writes stories at your child's level, how it keeps them safe, and what helps a little reading happen every day.
A free AI story generator for kids, built for reading practice
Peabody turns a child's ideas into a short AI-written story at their reading level, screened for safety, with practice words inside. Free through 2026.
An AI story maker for kids with no sign-up: one tap and go
No email, no password, no name. How Peabody lets a child start reading and making AI stories in one tap, what that tap creates, and what it can't remember.
How Peabody tracks the words your child knows
A cold warm-up before each story, three right days before a word counts as sticking, and missed words first. How Peabody's word tracking works, and its limits.
Is an AI story generator safe for kids? How Peabody screens every story
An idea screen, hard limits, code checks, an AI screen with a second opinion, and stories held for a person to review. What Peabody does before a child reads.
An AI bedtime story generator that keeps bedtime calm
How to use a free AI bedtime story generator without making bedtime about screens. Make the story earlier, read it aloud later, and let Peabody's bedtime mode help.
How to make a story with AI with your kid, step by step
A parent's walkthrough of making a story with AI for kids on Peabody, from picking ideas and a mood to reading the first pages together, plus tips for better stories.
Personalized stories for kids with AI: what's worth tailoring
AI can tailor a story to a child's ideas, reading level, practice words and comfort with scary. What Peabody personalizes, what it leaves out, and what the research says.
An AI reading app for kids, without a chatbot
In Peabody, AI writes and checks stories; your child never chats with it. What the AI does, what plain code does instead, and why that split is safer for kids.
Free stories for kids to read tonight, by reading level (Pre-K to 8th grade)
Peabody's free library of short stories for kids, sorted by measured reading level from Pre-K to 8th grade, no account needed, and what each level looks like.
What "reading level" really means, and why one number misleads
Readability formulas, grade levels and why a short story's level wanders by a grade. How Peabody measures every story in code and shows a range instead of a score.
Where is my child stuck? What reading data can show you, and what it can't
Missed words, books that were too easy or too hard, story parts and math facts. What Peabody's learning data shows a parent, honestly, and when to talk to a teacher.
Sight words practice in stories, not flashcards
How Peabody's early-reader stories practise Dolch sight words inside short, readable AI stories, plus simple sight word games you can play at home tonight.
Vocabulary practice for 1st grade: easy ways to grow words at home
First graders learn most new words by listening and talking, and learn to read words on sight. Simple daily vocabulary practice for 1st grade, with and without an app.
Vocabulary practice for 3rd grade: five words, three days
Third grade is when reading vocabulary takes off. A simple at-home routine, how Peabody's stories teach five words each, and why words need several days to stick.
How to get kids to read every day (without the weekend cram)
A dad's case for a few minutes every evening instead of a Saturday catch-up, and practical ways to make daily reading something kids pull you into.
A little every evening beats a Saturday cram: what memory research says
Spacing, recall with feedback, and why right-after-reading isn't the same as learned. What research supports about short daily reading practice, and what it doesn't.
Read it to someone: why your child reading aloud to you matters
Being the audience, not the grader. How to listen when your child reads aloud, what Peabody's Read it to someone! mode does, and why Peabody itself never listens.
How long should kids read each day? An honest answer
There's no research-backed ideal number of minutes. What the evidence does suggest about short reading sessions for kids, and how to pick a length that works for yours.
Share a kid's story by number: peabody.kids/story/1234
Every story a child makes on Peabody gets a number, so they can tell a friend where to read it. How story numbers work, who can see them, and what keeps them safe.
No name, no email, no account: how Peabody handles kids' privacy
What Peabody keeps about a child who uses it without an account, what it never asks for, which outside services touch the data, and how to delete it.
Free times tables and math practice for kids, made by code, not AI
Peabody's free math practice for 2nd to 5th grade climbs a step with every right answer and eases off after a miss. Times tables, fractions and more, with no AI involved.
Story ideas for kids: 60 prompts to start an AI story (or a paper one)
Story prompts for kids, sorted into who, where and what happens, plus moods, mix-and-match tips and three questions that turn any idea into a real story.
Questions to ask your child after reading: 30 that start real conversations
Reading comprehension questions for kids that go beyond "did you like it?", sorted by type, plus how Peabody's after-story questions and nightly word prompts work.
What a short story can quietly practise: concepts under the covers
Rhymes, word endings, similes, a character who changes. How Peabody's AI stories practise two reading concepts each, from a catalogue of 124, without ever naming them.
A free AI story generator teachers can suggest to families
For teachers and reading specialists, what Peabody is, what it isn't, and how to suggest it to families for short daily reading at home. No accounts, free through 2026.