For teachers, tutors, specialists
For schools, districts, tutoring centers
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:
Reduce costs
5-15× cheaper than print decodables for a building.
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.
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!
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.
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.
| LitLab.ai | Raz Kids | Lexia | Epic | Amplify Boost | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 📚 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!