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A classroom-ready playground co-designed by teachers, trusted by 1,200+ U.S. school districts.

Built with 47 former preschool and kindergarten teachers on staff — not content farms. Every game, song, and storybook in Diddyland maps to Common Core and EYFS standards, so lesson planning takes minutes, not weekends.

  • 1,200+U.S. school districts sanctioned
  • 380+UK nurseries onboard
  • 47former teachers on content team
  • 9child-development advisors
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Storybook illustration of a teacher using Diddyland with a small group of kindergarteners
Curriculum Alignment

Mapped to Common Core and EYFS — see exactly which standards each activity covers.

Click any title in the library to pull up its standards tag, learning objective, and recommended grade band. Diddyland covers 100% of preschool and kindergarten literacy and numeracy strands in both frameworks.

Common Core State Standards

Kindergarten & Grade 1 — the strands most requested by district curriculum leads.

  • RL.K.1With prompting, ask and answer questions about key details in a read-aloud story
  • RF.K.3Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding
  • K.CC.4Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities up to 20
  • K.OA.2Solve addition and subtraction word problems within 10
  • SL.K.5Add drawings or visual displays to descriptions to clarify ideas
  • L.K.5With guidance, sort common objects into categories to gain word meaning

+ 38 additional Common Core strands covered across the library

Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)

Reception & Year 1 — every area of learning, with nurseries in 138 countries adapting the same library.

  • CLCommunication & Language — listening, attention, understanding, speaking
  • LitLiteracy — linking sounds to letters, reading simple sentences, writing
  • MathMathematics — number, numerical patterns, shape, space & measure
  • UWUnderstanding the World — people, communities, technology, the natural world
  • EADExpressive Arts & Design — creating, performing, imaginative play
  • PSEDPersonal, Social & Emotional Development — self-regulation, relationships

+ All 7 EYFS areas of learning, mapped activity-by-activity

Illustration of the Diddyland educator dashboard showing rostering and lesson-plan tools
Always-Free Teacher Tier

Free forever for teachers — rostering, lesson-plan export, and classroom playlists included.

Every verified Pre-K through Grade 1 educator gets a full Diddyland classroom account at no cost, with no time limit and no feature restrictions. Build playlists aligned to next week's theme, share a join code with families, and export standards-tagged lesson plans to PDF in one click.

  • Roster up to 35 students with avatar logins and emoji-only passwords for pre-readers
  • Lesson-plan export to PDF — standards tags, objectives, and discussion prompts included
  • Classroom playlists for centers, morning tubs, and ELL station rotation
  • Parent Co-Pilot dashboard tracking phonics, numeracy, and creative-play milestones
  • Offline mode on 6 devices — perfect for in-flight, road-trip, or spotty-Wi-Fi days
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Free Resource Library

Printable activity packs and lesson-plan templates — ready for Monday morning.

Designed by the same 47 former preschool and kindergarten teachers who build the games. Print, copy, and drop straight into your lesson plan binder.

Preview of a printable phonics worksheet showing letter tile activity PDF · 12 pages
Phonics · K

CVC Word Builder Pack

Twenty cut-and-build activities for short-vowel consonant-vowel-consonant words. Pairs with the "Sound Garden" game for at-home follow-up.

Common Core: RF.K.3 · L.K.5
Preview of a printable numeracy worksheet with counting bears PDF · 18 pages
Numeracy · K

Ten-Frame & Counting Bears

Hands-on math centers for subitizing, counting to 20, and early addition within 10. Includes a teacher answer key and ELL family letter.

Common Core: K.CC.4 · K.OA.2
Preview of a read-aloud companion pack with vocabulary cards PDF · 24 pages
Read-Aloud · Pre-K–K

"Bunny's Big Day" Companion Pack

Vocabulary cards, comprehension questions, and a sequencing cut-and-paste. Pairs with the read-aloud story of the same name in the Diddyland library.

Common Core: RL.K.1 · SL.K.5
Preview of a weekly lesson-plan template on a clipboard Template · Editable
Lesson Plan · All Grades

Weekly Diddyland Lesson-Plan Template

Editable Google Slides and PDF. Drop in standards tags, link to a Diddyland playlist, and share with your team in under five minutes.

Works with CCSS & EYFS tagging

More packs added monthly. Verified teachers get the full archive by email — start your free teacher account.

Institutional Trust

Sanctioned by 1,200+ U.S. school districts and 380+ UK nurseries.

Recognized by Common Sense Media as a "Top Pick for Learning" (2022 & 2024) and awarded kidSAFE+ Privacy Certification every year since 2019.

1,200+

U.S. School Districts

From New York City to rural Montana — districts use Diddyland as a sanctioned classroom supplement for Pre-K through Grade 1.

Includes Title I & ELL programs
380+

UK Nurseries

Reception and Year 1 classrooms across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland map Diddyland to EYFS areas of learning.

Aligned to Statutory Framework
138

Countries Reached

2.4 million registered kid profiles across nine languages — English, Spanish, Mandarin, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, and Japanese.

Culturally adapted story libraries
8

Published Studies

Longitudinal research from 2018 to 2024 shows a 34% improvement in early-literacy scores after 12 weeks of regular classroom use.

Peer-reviewed & replicable
★ Parents Magazine — Best Edutainment App for Toddlers, 2023 ★ Common Sense Media — Top Pick for Learning, 2022 & 2024 ★ The Toy Insider — Best Edutainment App, 2023 & 2024 ★ kidSAFE+ Privacy Certified since 2019 (renewed annually)
Classroom Case Studies

Three classrooms, three measurable wins — see how real teachers use Diddyland.

Replicable results from verified classroom deployments. Names changed at teacher request; full reports available under district NDA.

Literacy
+34% phonics assessment gain in 12 weeks

Kindergarten literacy lift at Brookside Elementary

Mrs. Cardozo's mixed-ability kindergarten integrated two 15-minute Diddyland literacy stations into her daily rotation. End-of-quarter phonics assessment scores rose 34 percentage points compared to the prior cohort.

  • School: Brookside Elementary, Title I
  • Grade: K (22 students)
  • Setup: 2 iPads, 15-min stations, 4× weekly
  • Standards: RF.K.3 · RL.K.1
ELL Engagement
91% of ELL students engaged in paired reading tasks

Dual-language learners at Maple Grove Primary

Mr. Devlin's Year 1 ELL pod used Diddyland's bilingual read-aloud library (English/Spanish) as a shared anchor for vocabulary lessons. 91% of students engaged in paired reading tasks, up from 54% baseline.

  • School: Maple Grove Primary
  • Grade: Y1 (18 students, 14 ELL)
  • Setup: shared tablets + projector
  • Standards: ELD Standard 1 · RL.1.3
SEND Inclusion
2.4× more independent task completions per session

Inclusive classroom at St. Edmund's Nursery

Mrs. Patel's reception class supports four children with SEND alongside 24 typically-developing peers. Diddyland's predictable visual cues and self-paced structure produced 2.4× more independent task completions per session.

  • School: St. Edmund's Nursery, UK
  • Grade: Reception (28 students, 4 SEND)
  • Setup: 4 tablets, station rotation
  • Standards: EYFS CL · PSED · Lit

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