Delightful decodables and quality practice.
Aligned to UFLI.UFLI.
Access 1,000+ quality decodables or generate your own! Build fluency with student oral reading practice.
Trusted by leading schools and districts
LitLab makes early reading practice more curriculum-aligned, differentiated, and joyful.
Find high-quality content.
Or create your own.
Then assign it for practice.
Find high-quality content.
1000+ comprehensive
Grab-and-Go Decodables
Or create your own.
Fiction & non-fiction
Decodable Generators
Then, assign it for fluency practice.
Student Fluency Practice
with voice recording
Get real-time AI oral reading fluency analysis
Precisely aligned to four leading phonics programs:
LitLab Grab-and-Go Decodables
1,000+ skill-aligned decodables with comprehension questions, printables, and more — for daily instruction and practice.
LitLab Custom Decodable Generator
Create fiction or nonfiction decodables in seconds, precisely skill-aligned and personalized to your class's interests
LitLab Student Practice
Differentiated reading practice aligned to your scope and sequence—with AI fluency analysis and built-in comprehension.
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
Member of the EdSAFE Alliance, committed to using AI ethically and safely
Strong data governance, accountability, and privacy practices
Public commitments to data interoperability, data privacy, and security.
Featured in
Awarded by
ASU+GSV 2024: 50 Most Innovative EdTech Startups
ASU+GSV 2023 Semi-Finalist: Most Innovative EdTech Startups
SXSW EDU 2023 Launch Competition: Community Choice winner
HolonIQ North America Edtech Top 200 Companies
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 | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Multi-layered safety for worry-free learning
Controlled & filtered Inputs
Student-safe AI using controlled inputs combined with advanced filtering on all inputs to our models to ensure only appropriate content enters the system.
Purpose-built models
Our early literacy AI is specifically designed and heavily trained exclusively on safe, age-appropriate text to ensure reliable, educational responses.
Safety checks on outputs
Programmatic and LLM-powered filtering on all outputs provides an additional safety layer for both teachers and students before content is delivered.
Most AI decodable tools miss the mark. LitLab doesn't.
ChatGPT and even most K-12 AI tools are unaware of skill progressions, include irregular or multisyllabic words too early, and offer no guidance as to how the text matches phonics programs.
The LitLab platform was built on a proprietary Scope & Sequence Alignment engine. This unique system breaks down words into phoneme <> grapheme correspondences, and leverages models that respect the progression and rules created by each phonics program, resulting in highly decodable text.
| ChatGPT / K-12 AI tools | LitLab Decodable Generator |
|---|---|
| Ignores phonics progression | Follows precise scope & sequence |
| Irregular, multisyllabic words show up early | Controlled vocabulary at each level |
| No instructional context | Built to support explicit instruction |
Decodability Score (%)
In head-to-head tests, LitLab's generators scored an average of 93%+ on decodability, compared to ChatGPT's ~35% (even with good prompting).