About HummingRead
Real literature, matched to the reader, for the whole family
HummingRead began with a practical problem in a school where readers at different levels learn the same lesson together: ordinary levelled readers give each child a different book, and the conversation splits apart. We needed the opposite — the same worthwhile story at several levels.
So we rebuilt real literature — the stories worth reading twice — across six reading bands, with the pictures, questions, worksheets and checks that make a story a reading lesson. Then we made it a library any family can use.
Three things every page here says: neutral by design, under a published Content Philosophy; matched, not guessed, by a reading profile you control; real literature, up to six levels of the same story.
Why HummingRead
Why families choose HummingRead
- One story for the whole family. The same story at up to six reading levels, so every child reads it at their own level and you talk about it together.
- Safe, not tame. Clean all the way through, with the adventure left in. Every reader is checked against our written content standard: automated checks on every reader, and a person reads a sample. The standard is set and reviewed by people.
- True to the original. The same plot, people and meaning, with the words closer to the author’s own as the bands rise.
- Progress you can see. Each child’s progress is measured with HummingRead Reading Steps: four steps in every band, earned by reading well. Self-marking Quick Checks, dated results in each child’s garden, certificates along the way.
- Your way. Print a booklet, read on screen, or listen.
- Made in a real school. Built and used every day at The Champion Leadership Academy.
Origin
The Champion Leadership Academy
From the six-band learning system of The Champion Leadership Academy. The Academy is a private school in Grande Prairie, Alberta, whose Unified Academic Space teaches six development bands — Purple to Silver — across eleven subjects, with readers advancing by demonstrated understanding rather than age. HummingRead is the reading library developed from that method and used inside it.
HummingRead is a separate consumer product. A HummingRead account does not enrol a learner in the Academy, grant school credit or represent government approval. The Academy’s current status and enrolment information are published on its own site.
ScholarHawk, the Academy’s guided-learning platform, is in development and is not sold here.
How it’s made
The stories everyone knows, and how we make them.
Every reader records its source, its screening against the Content Philosophy, its adaptation to the band, its automated checks and its release. Read how a reader is made, and what’s in a HummingRead reader — and what we keep out.
Each reader's narration is a voice synthesized from the reader's own text. Meet the narrators.
Made with AI and HI: human intelligence wrote every one of these stories and sets the standard; artificial intelligence does the retelling, band by band, under that standard. Every reader is checked against our written content standard: automated checks on every reader, and a person reads a sample. The standard is set and reviewed by people.