Family literacy,
in every child's
hands.
Sawa is a screen-free reading device children take home. It listens, scores oral reading fluency, and gives your teachers real ORF and WIDA growth data — in any language a family speaks.
Trusted by literacy leaders in 120+ schools
The literacy bridge between
school and the dinner table.
Built with reading specialists and bilingual families. Sawa turns the 15 quiet minutes after dinner into measurable practice you can act on Monday morning.
Screen-free reading at home
A tactile device with NFC audiobook cards. No screens, no logins, no parent app to download.
Multilingual family engagement
Audiobooks and family prompts in 38+ languages — every caregiver can support reading at home.
Measurable ORF + WIDA growth
Sawa listens during home reading and reports oral reading fluency and WIDA speaking band per student.
Four taps from couch
to classroom data.
Tap an audiobook
Child taps a story card on Sawa. No login, no menus.
Read aloud together
Sawa plays the story, then invites the child to read passages out loud.
Sawa listens & scores
On-device speech scoring captures ORF, WIDA speaking and pause patterns.
Teachers see growth
Weekly trends sync to the Sawa dashboard — by student, class, or school.
The literacy data your
board has been asking for.
Sawa pairs joyful home reading with the assessment rigor your district needs to justify spend and show growth.
Built for the way districts actually run.
One contract, one device per child, no per-seat surprises. Your teachers spend less time on data entry and more time on conferring.
- District- and school-level dashboards
- Clever / ClassLink rostering
- FERPA, COPPA & SOPPA compliant
- Title I & ESSER Tier-II reporting
- Device fleet management included
- Onboarding + PD for every classroom
"My mom doesn't read English. Now we read with Sawa in Arabic, then I read it back to her. She says I sound like a teacher."
Start with a classroom.
Scale to a district.
- 1 device per K–5 student
- Full PD package
- Family onboarding kit
- Admin dashboard
- Volume pricing
- Clever / ClassLink SSO
- District reporting
- Dedicated partner success
Questions, answered.
How much does Sawa cost?+–
Pricing scales with deployment size. Pilot programs start at a per-classroom flat fee; school and district plans are negotiated per student. Title I and ESSER funds are eligible.
What languages does Sawa support?+–
Sawa ships with 38+ languages including Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin, Haitian Creole, Somali, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Portuguese, French and Russian. We add languages on request.
How is student data protected?+–
Sawa is FERPA, COPPA and SOPPA compliant. Audio is processed on-device when possible; aggregated scores sync to your district. We never sell student data.
How long does deployment take?+–
A single school is typically live within 3 weeks of contract — including rostering, device imaging, family onboarding nights and teacher PD.
What training do teachers get?+–
Every deployment includes 4 hours of live PD plus on-demand micro-lessons. Most teachers are confident with the dashboard inside one week.
What evidence supports Sawa?+–
Independent studies across 14 districts show an average ORF growth of 34% over 12 weeks compared to control classrooms. Full white paper available on request.
Bring Sawa to
your school.
A 30-minute demo with our school partnerships team. We'll walk through outcomes, deployment and pricing for your district.