Platforms
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STREEN STUDIO
Collaboratively interpret stories by transforming texts into reader’s theatre performances, illustrations, and interactive sound and media effects that reflect and extend a shared understanding of the story.
Details
STREEN-Studio is a web application that supports collaborative and creative reading experiences. Children work together to enrich stories with illustrations, sound effects, soundscapes, and other environmental media effects that are synchronised with the text and perceived directly in the room during reading or performance activities.
The platform is especially used to support collaborative reading activities such as Readers’ Theatre, audiobook creation, and story performances. Children do not simply read texts individually; instead, they collaboratively interpret stories, discuss meanings, create media elements, and prepare shared reading experiences for an audience or peer group.
Importantly, the activity is not primarily technology-centered, but socially and goal-oriented. The technology supports meaningful collective activities with a clear purpose — such as performing an augmented Readers’ Theatre session or collaboratively producing an enriched audiobook experience.
In addition to environmental storytelling, STREEN-Studio also includes features that support reading comprehension and vocabulary development by encouraging children to infer meaning from context, reflect on the text, and actively engage with language.
Problems it addresses
- Low reading motivation and engagement
- Reading often perceived as an isolated and passive activity
- Limited opportunities for collaborative and creative reading experiences
- Difficulties in connecting text comprehension with emotional, contextual, and social understanding
- Lack of meaningful and goal-oriented reading activities
- Overreliance on direct explanations instead of supporting inferential comprehension strategies
Benefits
- Promotes reading motivation through collaborative and immersive storytelling experiences
- Supports reading fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary development
- Encourages children to actively interpret, discuss, and shape stories together
- Fosters creativity, communication, and teamwork
- Connects reading with meaningful social goals and shared performances
- Helps children become active creators rather than passive consumers of text
- Supports differentiated, participatory, and inclusive learning experiences
STREEN STORYMAKER
Transform playful interactions with toys into creative stories and reading adventures.
Details
STREEN-StoryMaker is a storytelling and reading tool that allows children to create stories by naturally playing with physical toys and objects. Using computer vision and speech recognition, the system interprets children’s actions, dialogue, and storytelling, and transforms them into written narratives, questions, and interactive reading experiences. STREEN-StoryMaker combines play, storytelling, reading, and creativity into a collaborative and embodied literacy activity.
Problems it addresses
- Reading and storytelling activities often feel abstract or disconnected from children’s natural ways of learning and playing
- Limited opportunities for collaborative and creative reading experiences
- Difficulty engaging children who struggle with traditional text-centered literacy activities
- Challenges supporting vocabulary development, reading comprehension, and reading motivation in motivating ways
- Lack of meaningful bridges between play-based learning and formal reading activities
Benefits
- Promotes reading motivation through playful and collaborative storytelling
- Supports vocabulary development, reading fluency, and reading comprehension
- Encourages embodied learning by connecting movement, objects, speech, emotions, and text
- Allows children to become active co-authors of stories rather than passive readers, listeners, or viewers
- Supports creativity, imagination, and social interaction
- Creates inclusive literacy experiences that build on children’s natural play behaviors
- Helps bridge the transition from play-based learning to text-based reading activities
STREEN QUEST
Explore your surroundings through treasure hunts where reading happens through creating and playing with clues and stories.
Details
STREEN-Quest is a web application that allows children and teachers to collaboratively create and experience location-based treasure hunts that combine reading, storytelling, movement, and exploration. Using familiar environments such as schoolyards or playgrounds, users can define real-world locations and connect them to narrative clues, riddles, and story events. STREEN-Quest supports the creation process through assisted authoring of stories, hints, riddles, and narrative paths, helping transform physical spaces into interactive reading adventures. Children can then play and explore these treasure hunts together through movement, problem-solving, and contextual reading activities.
Problems it addresses
- Low reading motivation and limited engagement with traditional reading activities
- Reading often disconnected from physical activity, exploration, and play
- Difficulty creating meaningful and immersive reading experiences
- Limited opportunities for collaborative, creative, and movement-based literacy activities
- Challenges engaging children who benefit from active and hands-on learning approaches
Benefits
- Makes reading engaging through adventure, storytelling, and exploration
- Integrates physical activity with literacy learning to encourage embodied reading experiences
- Strengthens reading comprehension through contextual, goal-oriented challenges
- Encourages collaboration, creativity, communication, and problem-solving
- Enables children to become active participants and co-creators of narrative experiences
- Simplifies the creation of educational treasure hunts through assisted story, clue, and riddle generation
- Supports flexible use in schoolyards, other familiar school environments
STREEN ARCADE
Play, read, and learn through a collection of interactive reading games where stories, words, and challenges come together in playful digital experiences.
Details
STREEN-Arcade is a web-based collection of educational games designed to promote reading, language development, and literacy through playful interaction. Rather than presenting reading as a standalone activity, the platform integrates words, sentences, stories, and reading challenges into engaging game mechanics that encourage exploration, experimentation, and repeated practice. The games address different aspects of literacy—including reading fluency, vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar, and narrative understanding—while maintaining a strong focus on enjoyment and intrinsic motivation. Teachers can integrate the games into classroom activities, while children can play independently or collaboratively in formal and informal learning environments.
Problems it addresses
- Low motivation to engage with traditional reading exercises
- Reading practice often perceived as repetitive or disconnected from play
- Limited opportunities for playful and interactive literacy development
- Difficulty maintaining children’s attention during reading activities
- Need for engaging tools that support diverse reading abilities and learning styles
Benefits
- Promotes reading motivation through game-based learning
- Reinforces vocabulary, comprehension, spelling, and language skills through meaningful gameplay
- Encourages repeated practice in an enjoyable and low-pressure environment
- Supports differentiated learning through games targeting different literacy skills and difficulty levels
- Provides immediate feedback that helps children monitor their progress
- Fosters curiosity, persistence, and problem-solving while learning to read
- Offers flexible activities suitable for classrooms, extracurricular settings, and home learning
- Creates engaging literacy experiences that combine learning, challenge, and play