Every classroom is a literacy classroom
Short, standards-aligned stories that students actually want to finish. Each one drops into any lesson, already scaffolded for your newcomer, your striving reader, and your on-level student.
Grades 2–12 · US & International · Schools & Districts · Gen Ed · English Learners · SpEd
By educators, for educators
Lessons that work for your whole roster
Differentiating by hand means building the same lesson five ways. LingoLift does it for you — with comprehension and language activities tagged to each student’s level and grade — so the kid who can’t decode yet still follows the whole story. Same lesson, no late nights.
With accessible audio and video content, read-along transcripts on every lesson, adjustable pacing, and leveled questions, every learner is met where they are.
The best part? Students love it.
Real-world curriculum aligned content
Grade-level ideas every student can access
Audio and video is the on-ramp to rigorous learning.
- 3,000+ lessons across ELA, ESL, social studies, science, social-emotional learning — and each one has interactive comprehension and language activities. New lessons are added every week.
- Ready-made activities —vocabulary games, quizzes, discussion prompts, worksheets, and more — built into every lesson.
- 100+ newcomer-focused ELL lessons, from survival English to intermediate lessons that cover critical social and academic English, for newcomers at every grade level.
clAIM BACK YOUR TIME
Ten-minute stories that slot into your curriculum
Designed so educators can focus on what matters most: teaching.
- Find the right lesson fast with an organized, easy-to-browse library.
- Every lesson comes with downloadable worksheets and teacher guides — ready to teach, no prep required.
- Instant feedback aligned to language frameworks (including WIDA and ELPAC) on written responses with AI-powered LingoLift Writing Assessor.
- With easy SSO and student rostering, your class is set up in minutes.
- Test prep with easy practice across literacy skills and testing formats.
authentic source material
Real, quality content you can trust
In a world of boring, synthetic content, LingoLift brings the real thing: real stories, real people, real voices.
- Lessons crafted with sources teachers trust like NPR, Bedtime History, and Book Club for Kids.
- Fill gaps in core curriculum with modern content and coverage of current events and topics.
- Read-along transcripts on all content, plus instructions you can set in a student’s native language.
- Watch how students grow in their comprehension, engagement, inference, vocabulary, and more.
It’s just a no-brainer. The curation is excellent, and the resources provided are amazing.
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Early Access
Try it Monday morning
See how your Monday morning will look with LingoLift in the mix! Ahead of our full launch in Fall 2026, Teachers can try LingoLift for free with Early Access.
Built for literacy, not just reading
LingoLift is the next chapter of Listenwise, the listening comprehension tool teachers have trusted for years. Now it supports all four literacy skills — with listening as the key that opens the door.
Listening
Audio and video featuring real voices and real stories students actually want to finish, with playback they can slow down and replay.
- Expose students to natural language, real world topics, and conversations that standard curriculum products lack.
- Engage learners with interactive listening activities like the Bubble Game, reading quizzes, and video quizzes so they keep coming back for more.
- A struggling reader can rewind the hard part and slow it down until it clicks — synchronized transcripts and adjustable speed, no hand-raising required.
- Audio equalizes access to complex, academic content for all students.
Reading
The same audio or video story, but presented in text and leveled appropriately for each reader, while surfacing in-context academic vocabulary.
- Students listen while they read along, improving awareness of how sounds and letters go together — a critical building block to reading comprehension.
- Synchronized text and audio reduces decoding load so a student who can’t yet decode still follows the meaning.
- Build new social and academic vocabulary in context of relevant, real world content.
- High quality interactive reading activities and quizzes.
Writing
Real writing practice with feedback that actually helps — not “write a paragraph” into the void.
- Pre-prepared, long-form prompts that encourage critical thinking and self-expression.
- A built-in, AI writing assessor aligned to language frameworks (including WIDA and ELPAC) that highlights strengths, flags areas to improve, and gives actionable feedback.
- Open-ended questions designed for varying literacy and proficiency levels.
Speaking
Low-stakes speaking practice that builds vocabulary and confidence before students have to speak to the class.
- Interactive speaking activities for all students, including English learners, to grow comfortable using academic English.
- Built-in feedback that checks pronunciation in real time — so practice builds genuinely stronger, more confident speakers.
- High-interest stories easily spark active dialogue, discussion, and debate — even for reluctant speakers.
Testimonials
Educators in every subject love LingoLift
The strongest sign a tool belongs in your school: it’s already being used three doors down.
Hear from real teachers who have used us, formerly Listenwise, for years.
USE CASES
No two learners are identical. But your curriculum can still reach all of them.
LingoLift is built for the reality of the classroom: a student two grades behind, a student who arrived last month, a student who’s right on track, all sitting beside each other.
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For four-skill, core literacy development
Run it whole-class, as a small-group rotation, or as a station kids work through on their own — on stories they’ll bring up again at lunch.
And unlike tools that stop at reading and writing, LingoLift builds listening and speaking too, so students grow across all four skills.
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For Multilinguals and English language learners
Hundreds of newcomer lessons (survival English to intermediate), instructions in 15+ native languages, and content you can align to your own MLL/ELL/ESL framework — WIDA, ELP, or your state’s. Built to help newcomers and emerging multilingual learners build confidence and work toward reclassification.
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For students with learning differences
WCAG 2.2 compliant, screen-reader friendly, with read-along transcripts and captions on all content. Multimodal lessons and adjustable pacing let students with diverse needs access the material and build background knowledge. Loved by classroom teachers and Speech-Language Pathologists alike.
With trusted content from
With LingoLift, our content has expanded from NPR to include trusted publishers like:
The road to full launch in Fall 2026
We’re shipping fast. Coming soon for those with LingoLift Early Access:
- An AI Writing Assessor — grading and feedback on writing, aligned to literacy and ELL frameworks.
- Skills reporting and progress tracking, with grade passback.
- LMS integrations (LTI 1.3).
- State-standards alignment tagging on every lesson.
- Favorites, playlists, and lesson sharing between teachers.
Want first looks and a say in what we build next? Join LingoLift Insiders!
We believe student achievement starts with literacy
Every LingoLift lesson is curated by experienced educators for student interest and relatability, aligned to curriculum standards, and scaffolded to support learning differences. By building the right tools for their teachers, we can make sure that every student engages with grade level content and big ideas directly — not a watered-down version while they catch up.
FAQs
Learn about LingoLift
Why did Listenwise rebrand as LingoLift?
Listenwise became LingoLift in June 2026. With new technologies, interactivity, features, and expanded content, we’ve grown from the listening comprehension tool teachers have trusted for years into the foundational platform for all four core literacy skills.
What grade levels does LingoLift support?
LingoLift supports grades 2–12 across ELA, ESL, social studies, science, social-emotional learning, and current events. Lessons for math and careers are coming soon, too! If you teach it, there’s likely a story for it.
Where does the lesson content come from?
Lessons are built on real-world stories from trusted media partners like NPR, curated and designed by experienced educators and leveled for the classroom.
Is LingoLift suitable for English language learners?
Yes — it’s based on WIDA, supports 15+ home languages, and is built to help newcomers and emerging multilingual learners build academic English across all four domains and work toward reclassification.
Does it work with our systems?
LingoLift offers easy student rostering and SSO today. Coming soon, we’ll have LMS integration via LTI 1.3.
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100% would say yes
Listening, speaking, reading, writing. It’s all there. If I was to survey my students if they like it, 100% would say yes.
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