Quality reading practice aligned to your phonics program
LitLab helps schools and districts strengthen their foundational skills program with curriculum-aligned decodables, oral reading fluency practice, and simple progress monitoring.
What LitLab Does
How LitLab reinforces your foundational skills program
Curriculum-aligned decodables
Hyper-aligned to each lesson in your scope and sequence.
Oral reading fluency practice
Students read aloud. AI captures fluency and accuracy data in real time.
Easy progress monitoring
Skill tracking is precisely mapped to the lessons in your phonics program.
Precisely aligned to several leading phonics programs‡
Why LitLab?
Reduce costs
On average, 60%+ cheaper than other reading practice platforms
Precisely aligned
The only program fully aligned with leading phonics curricula.
Save teachers time
Track student fluency progress in minutes, not hours.
Empower early readers
Build confidence with personalized, skill-appropriate text.
Built on decades of research
Designed by literacy specialists and AI experts to drive measurable reading growth. LitLab meets ESSA Tier IV evidence standards.
What's included in LitLab?
| Feature | LitLab Free | LitLab |
|---|---|---|
| LitLab Grab-and-Go Decodables™ | ||
| High quality grab-and-go decodables | ~80 | 1,000+ |
| Vocab and phonics guides | ✅ | ✅ |
| Comprehension questions | Limited | ✅ |
| Printable activities | Limited | ✅ |
| Download and print stories | Limited | ✅ |
| LitLab Decodable Generators™ | ||
| Custom illustrated fiction decodables | Limited | ✅ |
| Custom non-fiction decodables | Limited | ✅ |
| Download, copy, and print | Limited | ✅ |
| Aligned to multiple core phonics programs | ✅ | |
| LitLab Student Practice™ | ||
| Students can create skill-aligned stories | Limited | ✅ |
| Assign stories and decodables to students | Limited | ✅ |
| Built-in oral reading fluency practice | ✅ | |
| Real-time student feedback | ✅ | |
| Spanish support | ✅ | ✅ |
| LitLab AI Fluency Analysis™ & LitLab Progress Monitoring™ | ||
| Fluency and accuracy for every student recording | ✅ | |
| Student longitudinal views | ✅ | |
| Class-wide progress monitoring | ✅ | |
| Curriculum-aligned scope & sequence heatmap | ✅ | |
| COMING SOON: Curriculum-aligned guidance | ✅ | |
| Privacy, safety, and alignment | ||
| SSO with Google | ✅ | ✅ |
| SSO & roster with Clever | ✅ | |
| SSO & roster with ClassLink | ✅ | |
| Compliant with NY EdLaw 2D, CA NDPA, others | ✅ | ✅ |
| Safe, rigorously tested AI models | ✅ | ✅ |
| Highly-decodable (85% average) | ✅ | ✅ |
| School or district DPA signed | ✅ | |
| Access to priority support | ✅ | |
Grounded in the Science of Reading
LitLab was built by literacy specialists and AI experts, with significant input from leading researchers.
LitLab's logic model is based off of decades of research on student motivation, language acquisition, and structured literacy.
LitLab is ESSA Tier IV certified.
LitLab demonstrates a strong, research-based rationale for improving early literacy outcomes. We partnered with leading third-party researchers to build our logic model and conduct a feasibility study.
Learn more, and see our logic model here.
Made by educators,
loved by educators
Jessica S.
Literacy Interventionist
Bloomfield, NJ
I love being able to customize the decodables. The students were amazed at their selections being quickly inserted into a decodable they could read within seconds. The decodables were really enjoyable for the children to read!
Monica A.
2nd Grade Teacher
Atlanta, GA
It was a hit! The kids loved being able to use their creativity while strengthening their reading skills with decodables. LitLab offered interactive features which made the experience truly engaging.
Meghan C.
1st Grade Teacher
Windsor, CA
They were excited to read their stories, find their friends' stories afterwards, and then even read random stories with interesting titles. There isn't this excitement about Epic. They're not like, “Look at this cool book that I read,” but today they were like, “Oh my gosh, read this one!”
Carrie S.
1st Grade Teacher
San Diego, CA
LitLab is a really engaging tool for students to create their own decodable books for fluency and skills practice!
Case study: top-quartile fluency gains
Educators and school leaders alike trust LitLab to supercharge reading practice for developing readers.
Nashville Classical Charter School launched a focused pilot in two classrooms (1st and 2nd grade).
LitLab was used during the school's Tier 2 intervention block. While teachers worked with small groups, the rest of the class used LitLab independently. Teachers assigned decodable patterns weekly, based on data from AIMSWeb and CKLA.
“Both classes had growth/performance rates higher than the other 1st and 2nd grade classes.
Thank you all at LitLab for helping us create engaged, fluent readers - a skill no one can take away from them. I can't tell you how much it means to me to know our kids are choosing to read (and doing it well) every day.”
—Emma Colonna, Director of K-8 Humanities, Nashville Classical Charter School
Both classrooms that piloted LitLab outperformed their peers on end-of-year benchmarks. These two classrooms were in the top quartile for growth nationwide. Every student in both groups made gains in oral reading fluency.
Student engagement also saw a marked shift. Teachers reported sustained focus as well: 15 to 20 minutes of independent use, and growing excitement around reading.
Case Study: 94% of teachers see measurable reading gains with LitLab
Ringwood Primary School (Johnsburg CUSD 12, IL) serves ~300 students across K–2 and uses UFLI Foundations as their core phonics program. Teachers were seeing students perform well during explicit phonics lessons but struggle to transfer those skills into fluent reading of connected text.
Prior to LitLab, Ringwood students struggled to bridge the gap from decoding to fluency. According to Dawn Barrett, the site lead, “[students] were not applying the skills that they were using through the phonics instruction in their reading. They were still chopping words and stretching them out, but wouldn't put them together in a fluent word.”
“LitLab has helped by giving [students] practice to read words fluently.”
—Dawn Barrett, Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Johnsburg School District 12
94%
of teachers agreed students improved on UFLI-based weekly assessments
95%
say LitLab content aligns directly to their core phonics curriculum
90%
report improved student engagement with reading practice
95%
say LitLab saves them time finding high-quality instructional materials
Results drawn from a January 2026 survey of 20 educators measured on Likert agreement scales.
How We Use AI — and How We Don't
Every AI decision we make is evaluated through one lens: does this serve the student's reading development?
Students never interact with a general-purpose AI.
LitLab is not a chatbot. Students read stories and record themselves reading. AI works behind the scenes to generate curriculum-aligned decodables and analyze oral reading accuracy. There is no open-ended text input or conversational AI for students.
Student data is never used to train AI models.
Student recordings are processed for reading analysis only. They are not used — by LitLab or by any of our AI vendors — to train machine learning models. Our vendor agreements explicitly prohibit this.
All AI-generated content is constrained by curriculum.
Every generated story is bound by a specific phonics skill scope, controlled vocabulary lists, and age-appropriate content parameters. Our library of ~1,500 pre-made decodables goes through rigorous human review.
Enterprise-grade vendor data policies.
We work with OpenAI and Google Cloud for specific, scoped tasks. Student data transmitted for processing is not stored by vendors, not used for training, and not shared.
FERPA, COPPA, and SOPPA compliant.
LitLab is designed for the classroom from the ground up. We have signed the National Data Privacy Agreement through the Student Data Privacy Consortium, and we regularly sign custom DPAs when working at the district level. We have been vetted by Common Sense Privacy.
Teachers stay in control.
Teachers decide what content students see, which assignments to give, and whether to enable story creation. All student-generated content is visible to teachers. Reading data belongs to the school and can be deleted at any time.
What LitLab helps replace
Miscellaneous decodables with no clear alignment
Generic AI-generated reading passages
Curriculum-aligned decodables
Hyper-aligned to each lesson in your scope and sequence
1,500+ grab-and-go stories plus a custom generator
Disconnected practice outside the core sequence
Isolated phonics drills without connected reading
Oral reading fluency practice
Students read aloud in the context of real stories
AI captures fluency and accuracy data in real time
Separate one-to-one fluency checks for routine monitoring
Standalone data that doesn't connect to next-step instruction
Easy progress monitoring
Skill tracking mapped precisely to your phonics lessons
Lesson-level insights and admin dashboards
Frequently asked questions
LitLab's pricing is meant to be accessible for the vast majority of schools. Pricing is ~50-70% cheaper than Lexia and other comparable reading practice tools. To learn more and ask about discounts, book a demo .
Generally speaking, there are three shortcomings with ChatGPT and most "AI decodable generators":
- Not scope & sequence aware – True decodable texts follow a structured phonics progression, ensuring students only encounter taught letter-sound correspondences. ChatGPT does not track or enforce this sequence.
- Inconsistent phonetic control – Proper decodables minimize irregular words and multisyllabic words until students are ready for it, and thoughtfully exclude phonetic patterns beyond a student's instructional level.
- No teacher guidance – Decodable texts should support the teacher in understanding which words are not decodable so that they can be explicitly pre-taught, which words are reinforcing the given skill, and so on. They should also thoughtfully include relevant supplemental exercises and practice.
LitLab's Student Practice Platform is the only tool on the market that builds fluency with authentic, curriculum-aligned decodables.
| Feature | LitLab.ai | Raz Kids | Lexia | Epic | Amplify Boost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 📚 High-quality, authentic decodables | 1,500+ | ~40 | 21 | 0 | n/a |
| 🎯 Aligned to core phonics programs? | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 🧠 Oral reading fluency and built-in voice recognition | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| ✍️ Empower students as story creators | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| 🔤 Well-designed phonics practice | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| 🎨 Teachers can make custom decodables | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Have more questions? Reach out to us at ops@litlab.ai!