Structured literacy tools that work in the room and over a call

Built for reading intervention, not general edtech

Most classroom reading tools assume a fluent reader who needs practice. Lumira assumes the opposite: a child who is decoding effortfully, loses their place, and needs the text itself to do some of the work. Everything below follows from that.

• Live word-synced reading

  As a student reads aloud, the words highlight in real time on every screen in the session. You can see exactly where a reader is and where they stall.

• Small-group sessions

  Run one reader and several listeners, in the room or remotely, with voice built in. No separate conferencing tool to juggle.

• Classroom rosters

  Create a classroom, invite students with a code or link, and keep every reader's work and progress in one place.

• Assign and schedule

  Assign specific lessons or books to individual students and put sessions on a calendar so practice becomes routine.

• Homework scan

  Photograph any worksheet and it becomes an editable whiteboard the whole group can write on — including remotely.

• Build your own lessons

  Compose a lesson from the same tiles, heart-word and word-sort activities used across the app, targeted at a pattern a specific child is stuck on.

The content you get

• 76 original decodable books, written to controlled grapheme–phoneme correspondences and free to use — browse them by phonics pattern or as a full list.
• 136 structured phonics lessons with explicit objectives, word lists and step sequences, mapped to a 24-phase scope and sequence.
• Around 160 further titles of classic and levelled read-aloud text for fluency and comprehension work.
• A five-level progression from pre-reading through fluent reading, mapped to Chall's stages — see reading levels.

The evidence base

The scope and sequence is synthesised from published structured literacy frameworks — including UFLI, the Australian Literacy Hub phases, IDA's Knowledge and Practice Standards, AUSPELD, and the National Reading Panel findings — rather than invented in-house. Each of the five levels lists its own citations so you can check the basis for the sequencing yourself.

Concretely, that means continuous sounds before stop sounds, explicit instruction in irregular "heart words", decodable text held at a high accuracy rate so students experience success rather than failure, and cumulative multisensory review in every lesson.

Accessibility is the default, not a setting

Dyslexia-friendly typography and spacing, a high-contrast mode, reduced-motion mode, colour-coded vowels, one-word-at-a-time presentation, and large touch targets are built into the shared components rather than bolted on. Ninety-four of the lessons carry explicit dyslexia adaptations in their definition.

Getting started

1. Open Lumira and create a teacher profile.
2. Create a classroom and invite students with a code or a shareable link.
3. Run the reading check-in with each new student to place them on the right level.
4. Assign a lesson or a decodable book, then run your first live session.

Open Lumira