LitLab Insights
Research-backed implementation guidance, policy-aligned recommendations, and practical classroom ideas from the LitLab team.
8/24/2026
Here's why encoding deserves as much instructional time as decoding, how LitLab builds it into every story, and what 50,000+ real student attempts taught us about where kids actually get stuck.
7/22/2026
See how LitLab maintains 97%+ median decodability across all 128 UFLI Foundations lessons — with the data to prove it.
6/29/2026
LitLab helped my students build fluency, confidence, and independence through recorded reading and decodable practice. In my 40+ years in education, I have not seen this level of reading growth across multiple grade levels in such a short period of time.
5/22/2026
Ohio has built one of the country’s clearest early literacy policy frameworks. LitLab helps schools bring that vision into daily practice with curriculum-aligned decodables, oral reading fluency, and skill-level feedback.
5/19/2026
Tennessee’s Reading 360 built a strong early literacy foundation. Now schools need daily practice and feedback aligned to instruction.
5/13/2026
How LitLab supports California schools and districts as they shift toward evidence-based early literacy instruction.
5/6/2026
AI tools can scale coherent literacy instruction — or further fragment it. Here’s how to tell the difference.
5/1/2026
How LitLab supports Kentucky schools and districts as they strengthen structured literacy implementation in K–3 classrooms.
4/16/2026
Students were learning phonics—but not transferring those skills to real reading. This case study shows how Ringwood Primary School, a public elementary school, used LitLab’s curriculum-aligned decodable texts to close the gap between phonics instruction and fluent, independent reading.
3/6/2026
AI is everywhere in edtech — but not all of it belongs in an early literacy classroom. Here's how LitLab uses emerging AI to support the Science of Reading, and the principles that keep teachers in control.
1/7/2026
Learn how LitLab bridges the gap between phonics instruction and fluency practice through coherent, curriculum-aligned reading practice grounded in the Science of Reading.
10/15/2025
Learn the key features of high-quality decodable texts that support student reading success and teacher effectiveness.
10/8/2025
A practical framework for selecting 3–5 words to preview so students read decodable texts with confidence and comprehension.
4/5/2025
Students were running out of decodables—and losing motivation. This case study shows how Nashville Classical Charter School used LitLab's personalized, curriculum-aligned texts to drive measurable fluency growth and reignite student engagement.
2/21/2025
LitLab is ESSA Tier IV certified. Here's the research behind how we're built, and the logic model that grounds every product decision we make.