Strong phonics instruction deserves equally strong practice.
Built by leading experts to bridge the gap from decoding to fluency. Designed to reinforce and align with your Tier 1 reading program.
'25-'26 End-of-Year offer
LitLab Premium
Classroom
For teachers, tutors, specialists
$299
$249
per educator annually
or
Building
For schools, districts, tutoring centers
$2,999
$2,499
per building annually
Clever + ClassLink
Fresh content
Unlimited students
Premium support
Reading Horizons add-on is $300 per building.
What is LitLab?
For schools using UFLI, CKLA, Fundations, or Reading Horizons, LitLab.ai makes it simple to differentiate reading practice and build fluency.
LitLab Premium includes access to all three products:
Why LitLab?
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Save money
Decodable books for a whole building can be very expensive. Oftentimes, students memorize them, and they can be quite dry. LitLab lets educators and students generate engaging, custom decodables, and read 1000+ expert-made high-quality decodables.
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Align to your existing Tier 1 programs
LitLab.ai is built on a powerful phoneme-to-grapheme alignment engine, allowing teachers to reinforce phonics skills from their already adopted programs and easily differentiate practice for every learner.
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Save teachers time
For teachers, finding, editing, and sharing decodables for whole-class, small-group and 1:1 use is difficult and time-consuming. LitLab saves hours for teachers with highly customizable AI decodable generators.
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Empower early readers
For students, LitLab empowers developing readers as story creators with student-safe AI tools, allowing them to create decodables based on their interests and the exact skills the teacher allows, and engage in oral reading fluency practice.
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Grounded in quality research
LitLab was built by literacy specialists and AI experts, and is grounded in decades of research on student motivation, language acquisition, and structured literacy
What's included in LitLab Premium?
LitLab Free
LitLab Premium
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
✅
✨NEW✨ Built-in oral reading fluency practice
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✨NEW✨ Fluency and accuracy student data
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Privacy, safety, and alignment
SSO with Google
✅
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SSO & roster with Clever
✅
SSO & roster with ClassLink
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Compliant with NY EdLaw 2D, CA NDPA, others
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Safe, rigorously tested AI models
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Highly-decodable (85% average)
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School or district DPA signed
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Access to priority support
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Don‘t just take our word for it.
Thousands of educators have used LitLab to supercharge reading practice for developing readers.
“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
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Deeply grounded in the research.
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.
Learn more, and see our logic model here.
FAQs
Litlab is a mission-driven organization that's committed to improving early literacy by building powerful, evidence-backed reading practice tools using the latest AI technologies. In order to sustain our commitment to building with cutting-edge tech, we offer an affordable premium membership option for schools and districts.
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 .
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 .
LitLab Premium is an affordable, flat rate, per-building annual subscription that includes access to all three LitLab products (powerful AI decodable generators, rigorous student-led practice, and nearly 1,000 grab-and-go decodables), for all instructional staff and students at your school or district. Districts and multi-school purchases can claim an additional discount on top of the subscription.
We are former educators ourselves and don't believe in charging teachers. We do offer a classroom membership option if the school or district is purchasing. See above for pricing.
Yes! We offer discounts for certain school contexts, such as small schools and international schools. Book a demo to learn more.
Absolutely! We're currently offering a limited number of free trials until the end of 2024. It's a great way to try out all the cool features and see how LitLab can make a difference in your classroom. After the trial, teachers will still have access to a limited free version of LitLab, including some of our fantastic decodables and the ability to create a limited number of personalized stories.
While ChatGPT (and several other online "decodable generators") can generate simple, beginner-friendly texts, most do not have the ability to structure them according to a systematic phonics scope and sequence. This makes its "decodables" not actually decodable, and therefore unsuitable for instructional use.
Generally speaking, there are three shortcomings with ChatGPT and most "AI decodable generators":
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 Support – 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.
| LitLab.ai | Raz Kids | Lexia | Epic | Amplify Boost | |
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| 📚 High-quality, authentic decodables | 1,000+ | ~40 | 21 | 0 | n/a |
| 🎯 Aligned to core phonics programs? | 5 | 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!