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Wish your child would pick up an Armenian book on their own? Our Eastern Armenian stories are short, silly and leveled, so kids read every page themselves and beg for the next one. Your first book is free.
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First letters, first books.
Ասա՛, ասա՛
It's bedtime, and Ara wants a story. Mom's tale grows one line at a time: a mountain, then a star, then a cat. Then Mom falls asleep first, and someone else in the room wants to hear it too.
- ԱՍՐԿJust four letters, the very first ones on the path.
- 2626 words your child reads alone
- 2Read it together. You read the small line, your child reads the big one.
Արի՛, Անի՛
Morning sun peeks through the curtains and wants to play hide-and-seek. It finds Ani under her blanket, then Ara, then the cat. On the last page it's the sun's turn to hide, and the kids call it back out.
- ԻՆTwo new letters, on top of Ա Ս Ր Կ
- 2525 words your child reads alone
- 2Read it together. You read the small line, your child reads the big one.
Made for a reader, not just a listener.
Kids learn the Armenian letters, then find mostly read-aloud picture books. hayihoki books are the missing step.
Մուկն է։
One pattern, one change
The same sentence repeats on every page with one new word. By page two, they're reading, not guessing.
Black for the word, red for the ending
Armenian endings change a lot. Printing them in red shows kids the word itself never changed.
A giggle on the last page
Every book ends with a silly twist, so kids flip right back to the start and read it again.
Leveled readers, finally in Armenian.
English readers grow up with leveled books: each one is just a little harder than the last. Armenian kids mostly get books written for a grown-up to read aloud. hayihoki starts at the very first letters. Level 0 follows the order the Armenian primer teaches them, so kids can read a whole book after learning four. Then three levels take them from words to real stories.
ReadyLetter by letter
I can read words
All 39 letters. One repeating line, one new word per page.
I can read sentences
Longer sentences, talking characters and new words, with a pattern to lean on.
I can read stories
A short paragraph a page and a real story to follow.
Kids move up when they're ready. Each step adds one new challenge and keeps everything they already know. Roughly K to 1st grade for Levels 0 and 1, 1st to 2nd for Level 2, and 2nd grade and up for Level 3.
“Our kids learn Armenian at day school and Saturday school. I want them to have more to read at home: funny books at their level that they pick up on their own, finish with pride, and come back to. That's how a language becomes theirs.”