Free reading progress tracker
Stay on track with every reader.
Keep lessons, progress, and review in one place. Free for one student.
Literacy Trail helps you know what to teach next, what needs more practice, and how far each student has come. No student logins, no time limit, nothing to pay.
Free for one student. 15-day free trial on paid plans.
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Sunday, September 13
Emma Rivera
UFLI Foundations · 63 of 148 lessons
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Lesson 45: sh /sh/
Digraphs · sh · Last time: ck /k/, Developing
Noah Turner
UFLI Foundations · 17 of 148 lessons
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Alphabet · short i · Last time: f /f/, Needs support
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What people say
From the people who teach reading
“I was keeping track of everything in a notebook before. I would write down the lesson we were on and then forget which sounds we needed to go back to. This is so much easier.”
“I used to have a spreadsheet, notes, and a binder. Having progress in one place is so much better.”
“My favorite part is being able to actually see the progress. Some weeks it feels like we are not getting anywhere, and then I look back and realize how many skills have been mastered.”
“I do not need more curriculum. I need to quickly see what has been mastered and what needs another day of practice. This does that really well.”
“It is really easy to jump between students and remember exactly where each one is.”
“Super simple but genuinely useful. I was doing basically the same thing manually in a spreadsheet, and this is much nicer.”
From early users. Names withheld for privacy; lightly edited for length.
Pick up right where you left off.
Open a student and see what's next.
No searching through notes. No trying to remember which lesson you stopped on.
Just open Literacy Trail and keep teaching.
Some skills need another try.
Not every lesson sticks the first time.
Mark how a student did, and Literacy Trail helps you keep track of what needs more practice.
Needs support
Come back to it soon.
Developing
Keep practicing.
Secure
Ready to move on.
You're always in control.
Sound familiar?
Most people arrive here from one of these
Literacy Trail does not replace the program you teach from. It replaces the notebook, the margins, the sticky notes and the scrolling.
A notebook with the lesson number in it
You know which lesson you are on. You do not know which sounds needed another look two weeks ago, because that was on a different page.
Check marks in the margins of the UFLI manual
The book still works. It just cannot tell you, three months in, which skills a child struggled with without paging through everything.
A spreadsheet, sticky notes and a binder
One for the sequence, one for today, one for the meeting. Progress for one intervention student lives in three places and matches in none of them.
A Google Doc per tutoring student
It works until you have four of them at four different points and the first ten minutes of each session are spent scrolling to find where you stopped.
Three children, one memory
Who did the digraphs? Who is ready to move on? With more than one child in the same program it gets hard to remember where everybody is.
A child who thinks she is bad at reading
Some weeks it feels like nothing moves. The record says otherwise, if there is a record to look at.
See progress as it happens.
Every lesson adds to a simple record of the student's reading.
See what they've completed, what they're working on, and where they may need extra help.
No extra spreadsheet required.
Made for the people doing the teaching.
Families
Keep each child on their own reading path.
See what's next, keep track of practice, and have a clear record of what you've covered.
Explore Literacy Trail for familiesTutors
Keep your students organized without spending your evening updating notes.
See every student, every lesson, and every next step in one place.
Explore Literacy Trail for tutorsSchools
Give teachers a shared, simple way to keep reading instruction organized across students and classrooms.
Explore Literacy Trail for schoolsUsing UFLI Foundations?
You can start with the lesson sequence already set up.
Choose where your student is, start tracking, and keep teaching from the UFLI materials you already use.
Using something else?
That works too.
Create your own reading sequence or import the curriculum you already use.
Literacy Trail fits around your teaching, not the other way around.
Literacy Trail is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the University of Florida Literacy Institute.
Less tracking. More teaching.
Literacy Trail keeps the small things organized so you can focus on the student in front of you.
Know what's next
See the next lesson for every student.
Remember what needs work
Keep skills that need more practice from getting lost.
Keep a clear record
Your lesson history grows as you teach.
See the whole picture
Know where every student is without digging through notes.
A free reading tracker that stays free.
One student. Nothing to pay. No time limit.
The free plan is the whole product for a single reader: the next lesson, the three ratings, the review queue, the calendar, the reports and certificates, and an export of everything at any time.
Two things mark it as free. Printouts carry a small Literacy Trail line, and the seat is for the life of the account, so it is for the reader you will keep working with.
Free for one student. 15-day free trial on paid plans.
Everything for one reader
Lessons, ratings, review, calendar, history, reports, certificates, export.
Nothing to pay, ever
Sign up with an email. Nothing to cancel, nothing that expires.
Your records stay yours
Export a student or the whole account whenever you like, on any plan.
More readers: 15-day free trial
Family holds up to 5 students and prints clean; Educator adds groups for up to 25.
No student logins.
Students don't need another app to manage.
Literacy Trail is for the teacher, tutor, or parent.
Students get to focus on reading.
Simple plans for every kind of teacher.
Free for one student. 15-day free trial on every paid plan. No student accounts needed.
Free
One student.
Free for as long as you like.
Nothing to pay. The seat is for the life of the account.
- 1 student
- The next lesson, always ready
- UFLI Foundations built in, or your own sequence
- Practice tracking with Needs support, Developing, Secure
No time limit. Upgrade only if you add students.
Family
Families and homeschools.
Up to 5 students.
Billed monthly. About $2.00 per student per month.
- Up to 5 students
- Reports, history and certificates, with no Literacy Trail line
- The next lesson for every student, always ready
- UFLI Foundations built in, or your own sequence
15-day free trial. Nothing charged until it ends. Cancel in one click.
Educator
Most popularTutors and reading teachers.
25 students included. No cap.
Billed monthly. Under $0.60 per student per month.
- 25 students included, more at $0.50 each a month
- Groups: teach once, record one rating per student
- Bulk recording and catch-up for missed sessions
- Students who need attention, surfaced on Today
15-day free trial. Nothing charged until it ends. Cancel in one click.
School
Schools and centers.
$4 per student per year. Unlimited educators.
Invoiced yearly, $300 minimum. Purchase orders accepted.
- $4 per student per year, minimum $300
- Unlimited educators sharing one roster
- Owner, admin, educator and viewer roles
- Curricula shared across the team
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“Super simple but genuinely useful. I was doing basically the same thing manually in a spreadsheet, and this is much nicer.”
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