For special education & intervention educators · Grades 2–12
Created for the student who understands more than they can read.
LingoLift delivers short, authentic video and audio lessons that carry grade-level content past the decoding wall. Read-along transcripts, captions, and leveled activities are built in, not bolted on — the kind of presentation supports many IEPs and 504 plans already call for, waiting in every lesson instead of on your Sunday-night to-do list.
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Grade-level content for students with disabilities — without the decoding barrier
Teachers face an impossible choice every week: hand a complex, grade-level text to a student who can’t decode it yet, or reach for a low-level “accessible” text that insults their intelligence. You don’t want them to shut down. You also refuse to hand them material that’s beneath them.
Listening breaks that trade-off.
When a student hears a story instead of fighting to decode it, the word-recognition barrier drops away. What’s left is the high-level comprehension work they’re actually capable of: identifying the main idea, drawing inferences, building Tier 2 vocabulary in context.
Your student who reads at a second-grade level but argues like a seventh grader finally gets content that matches their mind.
Every LingoLift lesson pairs authentic media with read-along transcripts and vocabulary reinforcement. Students see the words while they hear them — building the ear-to-print connection — then use them in independent speaking and writing practice.
UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING
Support that’s already in the lesson
No late nights rebuilding the lesson so your students can access it. It arrives accessible.
Read-along transcripts on every lesson
Students listen and read simultaneously, re-reading at their own pace to reinforce word recognition.
Accessible by design
Fully WCAG 2.2 compliant, screen-reader friendly, with high-quality captions on all video content.
Bite-sized pacing
Compact audio and video anchors each lesson, with comprehension activities that fit a resource-room block. There’s time to listen twice and still discuss.
Multi-level tagging
Comprehension and language activities carry both a grade tag and a language-level tag, so one lesson stretches across the range of learners in your room.
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Literacy skills your students build — and what you’ll see
Listening is the cognitive on-ramp, but it’s just the beginning. Once a story has their attention, students are guided to practice and produce language on all four domains:
Comprehension unblocked
Main idea, inference, and critical thinking through listening — grade-level cognitive work without the decoding toll.
What you’ll see:
The student who stays silent during reading blocks answering the inference question out loud.
Vocabulary in the wild
Academic and Tier 2 words arrive inside real stories — heard in natural speech, reinforced in print, practiced in context.
What you’ll see:
Story vocabulary showing up in class discussion and writing, unprompted.
Fluency practice that doesn’t feel like drills
Read-along transcripts pair the spoken word with its printed form. With stories this good, the second listen happens on its own.
What you’ll see:
Students tracking text with the audio, building word-form recognition without the anxiety of round-robin reading.
Low-stakes expressive language
Independent speaking, pronunciation, and grammar activities with no audience.
What you’ll see:
Your quietest students attempting structures they’d never risk in front of peers.
Background knowledge across the curriculum
Thousands of lessons across ELA, science, social studies, math, and SEL build the knowledge base that reading comprehension runs on.
What you’ll see:
“Hey, we heard about this on LingoLift!” — in science, three weeks later.
From whole-class instruction to small-group intervention
Inclusion classrooms
One lesson, one discussion, every student in it. Each learner enters through their own scaffolded access point — same story, same conversation, genuinely accessed. Students with IEPs participate in the discussion, not a parallel version of it.
Small groups & pull-outs
Short lessons fit a 30-minute intervention block with room to spare: play it, replay it, work the transcript, and still have time to talk.
Students served by both programs
Many students sit at the intersection of special education and English learner services. Because LingoLift tags activities by both grade and language level — with native-language instructions built in — one lesson serves both plans without double prep.
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Stories students actually want to finish
The best-designed supports fail if the student is checked out. LingoLift doesn’t use dry, robotic intervention texts — it uses real stories, human voices, and real-world stakes. The student who groans at the intervention workbook asks to hear the cheetah story again. That second listen is fluency practice; it just doesn’t feel like it.
Representation matters.
Our library intentionally highlights the stories, achievements, and histories of individuals with disabilities — fostering an inclusive environment where students sees themselves reflected in the curriculum.
For district and program leaders
Multimodal literacy lessons for special education
Our lessons are equipped with audio, video, and read-along transcripts with leveled comprehension activities, Grades 2–12.
We’re rigorous about accessibility. WCAG 2.2 compliant, screen-reader friendly, captioned video throughout.
Integration, today. Complete Single Sign-On (SSO) and student rostering are live and operational now.
Research basis. LingoLift’s instructional approach is grounded in the research linking listening comprehension to reading growth — the same foundation that earned Listenwise, the platform LingoLift grew from, its ESSA Level 4 (“Demonstrates a Rationale”) designation.
Funding. Districts typically purchased our earlier platform, Listenwise, with IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) funding for instructional materials and assistive technology, as well as Title I and Title III.
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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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FAQs
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Does LingoLift support IEP and 504 accommodations?
Every lesson includes read-along transcripts, captioned video, and leveled comprehension activities — the presentation supports many IEPs and 504 plans specify, built into the platform rather than added by hand. Your team decides how each student’s plan maps to them; the supports are there when you need them.
Is the platform accessible?
LingoLift is built to WCAG 2.2 guidelines, works with screen readers, and captions all video content.
Can LingoLift be used for Tier 2 and Tier 3 reading support?
Yes, as a supplemental resource: the short media format fits resource rooms, pull-out sessions, and small-group blocks, with downloadable teacher guides for each lesson. LingoLift supports comprehension, vocabulary, and expressive language alongside your intervention program — it isn’t a decoding intervention itself.
What grade levels does the content cover?
Grades 2 through 12, with activities tagged by grade and level so one lesson can serve a mixed-ability group.
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