Reading — guidance for teachers
Stories are the reading practice in Språki: over 200 Norwegian texts from A0 to B2—letters, advertisements, dialogues, and stories from the fictional coastal town of Sjøhavn—each with audio narration, click-to-search dictionary lookups, and automatically graded exercises. Students can work independently, and reading time counts as learning time.
The student opens the library, filters by level, and selects a text — a letter from NAV, a diary entry, a job advertisement. The exercises are located below the text and are corrected as soon as the student clicks Check answer. Everything the student does is saved, allowing them to resume the text right where they left off.
How it works
The feature is called Stories in the menu and is located at /stories. The library contains over 200 Norwegian texts across two views: Stories, where the texts are grouped into around twenty story arcs following a single person through a storyline, and All texts. Students can filter by level and category (Work, Health, Housing, School, Daily Life, and more), by status (Not started, In progress, Completed), and sort by Recommended, Recently opened, or Title A–Z. The level filter is preselected based on the student's own level.
Inside a text, the student has three font size buttons and a listen icon that appears after ten seconds, opening a player with speeds from 0.75x to 1.25x. If the student clicks on a word, a dictionary entry pops up with an explanation and inflection. Below the text is the help bar: Summary, Language tips, Explain in the student's native language, and Ask Språki — a chat dedicated to this specific text, with pre-made prompts such as Grammar, Short explanation, and Difficult words.
Exercise types
Each text has its own exercises, selected based on level and text type. The standard ones are True or false?, multiple choice, Find the information in the text, Fill in the blanks, Match, and Put in the correct order. All of these are corrected immediately, and the student sees the correct answer.
In addition, there are two types that go a step further. The writing exercise allows the student to answer in their own words, and the response is evaluated on Comprehension: and Language: with specific Corrections:. Some texts conclude with a vocabulary training block: the student sees the words from the text, clicks Start practice, and practices them in an overlay window without leaving the text page.
At the A0 level, four additional image and audio exercise types are available: match sentence to image, image to sentence, audio to sentence, or point to a specific word in a sentence.
Who it is for
The content covers levels A0 to B2, with the main focus on A1 and A2. The A0 texts consist of signs, pattern sentences, and short picture stories of a few dozen words; the B2 texts are informational texts, contracts, and letters of a couple hundred words.
Stories assumes that the student can decode Norwegian letters and short words. It does not teach basic literacy — for students with no prior reading skills, you should start with the Picture Dictionary and audio, and move on to the A0 texts once decoding is established. The content is also not a source of factual information about Norway: it is a fictional practice universe, and information about NAV, regulations, and rates is fabricated.
Suggestions for working with Reading
- Read a text together on a big screen. Increase the font size, let the students read aloud first, and play the audio at 0.75x as an answer key for pronunciation.
- Choose a category based on the lesson's theme. If you are working on doctor's appointments, filter by Health and let students choose freely between three texts; afterwards, they tell each other what they read.
- Use an entire story arc as a weekly plan. Open the Stories view and select a storyline; the texts are arranged in sequence, and students can track their progress.
- Set a rule that Ask Språki should only be used after the first read-through, allowing students to test their own comprehension before getting help.
- Use the writing exercise for speaking practice. Students write their answers, read them aloud to their partner, and compare them with the feedback they received.
- End the session with Start practice when a text includes a vocabulary block, so the words from today's text go straight into the student's personal vocabulary training.
Good to know
- All content is fictional and generated with AI. Sjøhavn is a fictional coastal town, and the characters do not exist. Students can read about this under What is Stories? at the top of the page, where the explanation is adapted to their level.
- The listen icon appears only after ten seconds. This is intentional: the student should engage with the text visually before the audio becomes available.
- Reading time counts as learning time. Time spent in the text is recorded in the Reading section of the progress page and counts toward the daily total and streak.
- Non-native Norwegian speakers get sentence translations at the A0 level. Below an A0 text, the page automatically includes a list of each sentence in Norwegian alongside the student's native language.
See also
This text was machine-translated from Norwegian. Read in Norwegian