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Classroom Tools

Practical tools.Stronger instruction.

Practical, science-aligned tools built to strengthen literacy instruction and work alongside the curriculum you already use.

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Find the right tool for your next step.

Decoding Assessment
The D.I.G. on desktop, laptop and tablet

The Decoding Inventory for Growth (D.I.G.)

A practical companion to universal screening. Identify which phonics skills are secure, pinpoint where students need more support, and plan what to teach next, with flexible grouping tools when you need them.

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High-Frequency Word Instruction
Heart Word Success lessons and materials

Heart Word Success

Help high-frequency words stick with ready-to-use, interactive lessons for 109 Power Words. Connect sounds, spellings, and meaning through explicit teaching routines that support accurate, automatic word reading and spelling.

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Decoding, Spelling & Vocabulary
Blending Magic lessons and materials

Blending Magic

Make blending practice do more with 225 ready-to-teach lesson sets that weave in spelling and vocabulary, all with a touch of magic. Each lesson includes game cards and independent practice tools to extend and reinforce the learning.

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Built to work with the curriculumyou already use.

Your curriculum provides the foundation. Our tools add targeted assessment, explicit teaching routines, and meaningful practice, all designed to help you teach with greater confidence and flexibility.

Assessment & next-step planning

The Decoding Inventory for Growth (D.I.G.)

Clear insights. Flexible next steps.

A practical complement to universal screening, this teacher-administered diagnostic phonics assessment helps you identify which skills are secure, and which readers need more support and where.

D.I.G. flexes with your needs. Assess the students you choose. Focus on the skills you need. Revisit as often as instruction calls for.

Built for teachers who want an assessment that actually informs instruction.

Easy to administer
Flexible administration
Group by shared needs
Track growth

$59 per teacher / year

The D.I.G. Decoding Inventory for Growth on desktop, laptop and tablet
Heart Word Success lessons, lesson guide and mini-course
High-frequency word instruction

Heart Word Success

Help high-frequency words stick.

Bring sounds, spellings, and meaning together with ready-to-use, interactive lessons for 109 Power Words. A consistent ten-step routine supports orthographic mapping as students explore how each word works and practice reading, spelling, and using it.

A free orthographic mapping mini-course explores the science behind how words become stored in long-term memory, and what that means for instruction.

109 interactive lessons
Free mini-course
Make words stick
Reading, spelling & meaning

$59 per year

Decoding, spelling & vocabulary

Blending Magic

Make blending practice do more.

Help students move from knowing sound-spelling relationships to reading words with greater ease. Blending Magic offers 225 ready-to-teach lesson sets that connect systematic blending practice with spelling, vocabulary, and meaning, all with a touch of magic.

Interactive Slideshow Lessons guide instruction, while Student Practice Pages, Student Practice Books (Magic Books), and Student Game Cards extend practice. Choose the lessons that fit your students’ needs and weave them into the phonics instruction you already provide.

Interactive Slideshow Lessons
Student Practice Pages
Student Practice Books (Magic Books)
Student Game Cards
Blending Magic Interactive Slideshow Lessons, Student Practice Pages, Student Practice Books (Magic Books) and Student Game Cards

For coaches, schools & districts

Choosing tools for more than one classroom?

Use the one-page overview to compare where each product fits, or talk with us about the instructional need your teachers are trying to solve. You do not have to decide which tool is right before you contact us.