Venture PITCH
.: Home Reading :.
A home reading program is standard practice in all elementary classrooms worldwide, meaning millions of children are reading every night. Most teachers find their Home Reading Programs a challenge because it takes up valuable class time, is difficult to assess, and is a challenge to individualize to each students' learning needs.
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.: Solution :.
We have created an app for any apple or android device called "I Love Reading." This app is the only Home Reading app and program available that:
The corresponding quizzes to the books test comprehension. This provides teachers with fast, easy, accurate and personalized assessment. Teachers and parents are able to access an online running assessment record of the student- saving precious classroom time. Students can listen to books for modeled fluency, read books for practice, and then record themselves reading so teachers can monitor progress. Reminders are sent daily via the Remind app to tell the parents what books are supposed to be read, and what interactive assessment piece corresponds to that! The best part about this app is that it is accessible from anywhere!
- Is personalized to each student
- Sends reminders directly to parents' phones
- Is accessible anytime from anywhere
The corresponding quizzes to the books test comprehension. This provides teachers with fast, easy, accurate and personalized assessment. Teachers and parents are able to access an online running assessment record of the student- saving precious classroom time. Students can listen to books for modeled fluency, read books for practice, and then record themselves reading so teachers can monitor progress. Reminders are sent daily via the Remind app to tell the parents what books are supposed to be read, and what interactive assessment piece corresponds to that! The best part about this app is that it is accessible from anywhere!
.: What makes "I love reading" different? :.
"I Love Reading" is one of a kind because:
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Personalized We partnered with Razkids to access thousands of interactive levelled eBooks, games and quizzes. The one big difference is "I Love Reading" Individualizes the student's account by:
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.: 2 :.
Remind We partnered with Remind to allow safe communication from home to school. Every evening parents receive an automatically generated text message from "I Love Reading" that shows them their child's homework.
Did your child forget to write down their homework? No problem! Check your phone: |
.: 3 :.
Accessible Busy night? Are you off to the Park? Baseball? Swimming? Piano? No Problem! All of the books from "I Love Reading" are downloaded directly to your app, so you can access them on your smart phone, iPad, or tablet, with or without wifi!
With parents and students having increasingly busy lives- I Love Reading app can be accessed any time and anywhere. This takes the stress out of Home Reading for parents and students. No other Home Reading program on the market has this accessibility. |
.: What else makes "I LOVE READING" great? :.
- I Love Reading makes students excited about their Home Reading because their literacy experience is personalized through a pre-assessment test and fun rewarding games. This excitement turns into great profits for you and I!
- I Love Reading is filled with everything a strong Home Reading Program needs for elementary aged students: Leveled readers, poetry books, alphabet materials, high-frequency word books, shared reading, literature circles and fun rewarding games.
.: Marketing :.
We have offered a free 30 day trial to classrooms across North America and 95% of parents, teachers and students said they liked it and would now purchase the app. We receive- on average- 350 requests a day to download our app.
Our market is elementary school teachers who want a clear, direct and easy home reading program. With your investment we would expand our market to other languages and countries, add more books to our data base, homeschools, flipped learning classrooms and into the in-school language arts programs worldwide.
We will reach our target market through product networking- such as social media, blog, website, appearances at conferences, and direct email campaigns to districts and schools.
Our market is elementary school teachers who want a clear, direct and easy home reading program. With your investment we would expand our market to other languages and countries, add more books to our data base, homeschools, flipped learning classrooms and into the in-school language arts programs worldwide.
We will reach our target market through product networking- such as social media, blog, website, appearances at conferences, and direct email campaigns to districts and schools.
.: Our Team :.
.: Competition :.
Other reading electronic software does exist on the market- such as Reading A to Z - however, their curriculum is not personalized to each student, reminders about specific homework assignments are not sent, and it does not have their full program in the form of an app. These 3 large flaws in their programing is what stands us apart to any competition.
.: SWOT :.
.: The ask :.
I Love Learning is asking for $1,000,000 with a time to revenue of 12 months and a time to profitability of 18 months. With this investment, I love reading will expand our market to additional languages and countries, add more books to our database, support home-schools, flipped-classrooms as well as in-school language arts programs.
As the alpha version of our app has already provided feedback, the needs identified for this app have been identified by surveys and research reports. The Chief Technology Officer will use this information to expand our market to additional languages and countries, using $300,000. The Chief Information Officer will source additional resources to continually add books to our database, using $300,000. The additional $400,000 will be used by the Chief Product Officer to continually improve our app, and target more schools’ subscriptions worldwide.
As the alpha version of our app has already provided feedback, the needs identified for this app have been identified by surveys and research reports. The Chief Technology Officer will use this information to expand our market to additional languages and countries, using $300,000. The Chief Information Officer will source additional resources to continually add books to our database, using $300,000. The additional $400,000 will be used by the Chief Product Officer to continually improve our app, and target more schools’ subscriptions worldwide.
.: THE return :.
I Love Reading app costs only $17.99 per download with a class subscription of 20 or more- making it accessible to all. This small cost is much lower for teachers would have to purchase and upkeep hundreds of leveled books in their classroom. From each download our investors make 76% profit. This high profit is why you need to invest in I Love Reading.
You don’t want to miss this opportunity to help us grow an already profitable I Love Reading!
Not only will you see a large return on your investment but you will be apart
of the literacy development of children worldwide.