Staff & volunteers can run it
No reading specialist required. Press play and the game does the structured-literacy teaching.
For after-school & OST programs
Literacy your program can actually run.
Built for Boys & Girls Clubs, YMCAs, and community programs: drop-in reading games any staffer or volunteer can lead, that kids choose to play.
Made for the way your program really works
Minimal setup, no special training, and engagement that holds, so literacy time runs itself.
Free, on the devices you have
Runs in any browser on the shared Chromebooks and tablets already in your space, at no cost.
Kids actually choose it
During program time it competes with games, not worksheets, so engagement isn't a fight.
Impact you can show funders
Every session captures fluency and growth data you can drop straight into grant reports.
Reporting, built in
The signals your grant-makers look for
JoyEd is built around the engagement and literacy-growth metrics funders ask about, so the impact section of your report writes itself.
Primary · Engagement
Quest & badge completion
% of students completing gamified learning quests and earning literacy skill badges.
Reflection & check-in rate
% of students giving feedback through post-session reflections and gamified check-ins.
Secondary · Outcomes
Measurable literacy growth
% of students with a 10+ WCPM improvement on DIBELS.
Reading for enjoyment
% of students who read outside of school for fun, captured by survey.
Metrics roll out alongside the platform. Want the full measurement plan for your grant? Talk to us.
The loop
Say it. Score it. Level up.
Every game runs the same three beats: fast enough to stay fun, real enough to build actual reading skill. That's structured literacy, hidden in a game.
01
Say it
Words and chunks appear in the game. Kids read them out loud, and the game listens through the mic.
02
Score it
Every read is scored for sounds, flow, and accuracy. Instant, encouraging feedback, never a red X.
03
Level up
Kids see their own growth and keep going, while the next word adapts to how they're reading.
Then it loops, every word, every game.
The suite
One playful universe. A world for every reader.
Each game is its own world with its own reading skill, from first words to multisyllabic decoding. Ground Control is live today, the Phoneme Gym demo is open to play, and the Blending Drill and Star Sailor are blasting off soon.
Bring JoyEd to your program
See it in your space
Book a 20-minute demo and we'll help you run JoyEd in your next after-school session, on the devices you already have.