Early reading support
any patron can bring home.

Literacy Leap guides caregivers step-by-step through early reading instruction and routes each family to the exact books in your collection that match their progress.

Kids Love Literacy Leap

Literacy Leap works for:

Adult and child working on reading activities together
Best-practice reading instruction for everyone

Designed for library systems and their patrons from day one.

Literacy Leap is an early reading program built for public libraries, giving you a clear answer for parents or tutors wanting to help their children learn to read.

  • Gold-standard phonics instruction without jargon
  • Seamless library card integration for home use
  • Admin portal for tracking patron usage and learning progress
  • Integrates into existing library literacy programming

Founding Partner

📚

St. Louis County Library

Co-developed with St. Louis County Library

Catalog Matching

Books recommended right from your shelves.

The only reading platform that connects each child's phonics level directly to your library's own catalog.

Customized to each child

A 15-minute phonics screener pinpoints each child’s exact phonics skill level.

Mapped to your shelves

Our team maps your system’s catalog and matches it to the child’s skill sequence.

Ready for every family

An answer for every family who walks in looking for the right book for their child.

See the patron experience in Literacy Leap!

Inside a 25-Minute Lesson

Lessons designed the way expert tutors teach.

Every lesson follows a structured approach, proven highly effective by decades of research.

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AI-personalized path · skills unlock as mastered

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1–2 min

Visual Drill

🧑‍💻On screen

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Step 1 · Visual Drill

Flash cards of all learned phonics patterns. The adult shows each card; the child reads the sound aloud — building instant, automatic recognition.

1–2 min🧑‍💻 On screen
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1–2 min

Auditory Drill

✍️Writing

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Step 2 · Auditory Drill

The adult says a phonics sound aloud; the child writes the letters that spell it — reinforcing the critical sound-to-spelling connection by hand.

1–2 min✍️ Writing
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1–2 min

Blending Drill

🧑‍💻On screen

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Step 3 · Blending Drill

Combine on-screen letter tiles to build real words, practicing how sounds blend together — with tiles matched precisely to the child's skill level.

1–2 min🧑‍💻 On screen
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4–5 min

Review Skill

🧑‍💻 + ✍️Both

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Step 4 · Review Skill

Read and spell words using the most recently mastered phonics pattern — keeping past learning fresh, automatic, and available for real-world reading.

4–5 min🧑‍💻 + ✍️ Both
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5–6 min

New Skill

🧑‍💻 + ✍️Both

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Step 5 · New Skill

AI introduces today's phonics pattern with a personalized word list to read and spell, guided by a scripted teaching sequence for the adult to follow.

5–6 min🧑‍💻 + ✍️ Both
✍️
4–5 min

Practice Sentences

✍️Writing

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Step 6 · Practice Sentences

AI generates decodable sentences using the current skill. The adult reads each aloud; the child writes it from dictation — applying skills in connected text.

4–5 min✍️ Writing
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4–5 min

Decodable Story

🧑‍💻On screen

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Step 7 · Decodable Story

AI writes a short story matched exactly to the child's current skill level — every word fully decodable. The child reads aloud while the adult coaches.

4–5 min🧑‍💻 On screen

~25 minutes

per complete session

Lemur World

Rewards for every bit of reading progress.

Kids love to visit Lemur World after each session to customize their own Leaping Lemur character.

85 coins

Get coins, unlock rewards

Ways to earn coins

+5Finish a drill in a lesson
+10Finish a new or review skill lesson
+20Finish practice sentences or a decodable story
+75Master a full skill on the path
+10Read a Practice Reading story & ace the quiz
+25Complete the full assessment

Spend coins in the shop

FlowersFire PitsCastlesBlimpsRainbowsFlying Cars

Each child's 3D lemur world is their own — customized with items they earned through real reading practice.

Common Questions

Questions from library systems

Patrons sign in with their library card, so using the platform feels like a natural extension of your existing library services, not one more login for patrons to keep track of. If your system prefers, we can also set up email-based sign in instead.

Yes. Many libraries use Literacy Leap inside tutoring programs they already run, with staff or volunteer tutors leading sessions using the same built-in scripts and guidance families use at home. It fits naturally alongside a program you've already built, or makes it easier to start tutoring initiatives for your patrons where they didn't previously exist.

Yes. Literacy Leap is built to align with the Orton-Gillingham method, a structured approach to literacy instruction proven through decades of research to be highly effective for children learning to read.

Very little. Most systems are fully set up within a day or two, when we help you configure access and connect your catalog. Once that's done, families use Literacy Leap independently from home, so there's no ongoing staff time required to run sessions. Your team can check in on usage and progress through the admin portal whenever it's helpful.

Our team analyzes your library's catalog and matches early readers and decodable book bundles to the exact skills in the Literacy Leap sequence. As they make progress, each child’s personalized list of titles from your shelves updates, so they always know what is available that matches their skill level.

Literacy Leap is priced on a seat basis, so you're only paying for the patrons who are actually a good fit to use the platform, not your entire population. This makes it easy to start small and scale as your program grows. Reach out and we can put together a quote for your system.

Yes. We offer the opportunity to start with a short-term pilot before committing to annual licenses, allowing you to gauge patron interest in the platform first.

User credentials are managed by dedicated third-party identity providers and are never stored directly by us. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and Literacy Leap is built with SOC 2 standards in mind, with a formal third-party audit upcoming. We're happy to walk through our data privacy practices in detail with your team. View our Privacy Policy

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