Delightful decodables and quality practice.
Aligned to CKLA.CKLA.
Access 1,000+ quality decodables or generate your own! Build fluency with student oral reading practice.
Trusted by leading schools and districts
Precisely aligned to these scope & sequences:
Choose from 1000+ joyful grab-and-go stories...
...or create a custom decodable within seconds!
LitLab Premium members can generate content aligned to their phonics scope & sequences, and fully illustrate stories.
Make independent practice magical —
empower students to create decodables!
You choose the skill from your phonics curriculum...
Students choose characters, settings, and names...
LitLab.ai creates unique decodable stories for every reader!
Students can create personalized, skill-aligned decodable
- ✓ Decodable and aligned to your learning objectives.
- ✓ Kids choose story elements based on their interests.
- ✓ Safe for kids with built-in content filtering.
Rigorous practice embedded in high-quality text
An e-reader built for decodability & accessibility
- ✓ Hear challenging vocabulary phonetically.
- ✓ Listen to entire stories.
- ✓ Read & hear kid-friendly definitions.
NEW: built-in oral reading fluency practice
- ✓ Students read into a microphone to unlock photo and readaloud.
- ✓ Teachers get quality fluency data.
- ✓ Build automaticity and reading confidence.
Grounded in the Science of Reading
LitLab.ai is designed to bridge the gap from decoding to fluency.
"Cognitive scientists have shown beyond doubt that fluent, accurate decoding is a hallmark of skilled reading" (Louisa C. Moats, 1998).
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!
Award-winning reading software,
thoughtfully co-designed with educators
Co-designed with Digital Promise schools and educators
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Practice that's higher quality and more curriculum-aligned.
LitLab is the only early reading supplemental that turns your core phonics program into interactive, precisely-aligned practice.
| 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 | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |