The Only Curriculum-Aligned Practice App for Foundational Skills Mastery
See Results with Just 3 Sessions per Week, 8 Minutes per Session of Instructionally Aligned Practice!
CC PAL is the only app designed to extend classroom learning with independent retrieval practice that directly reinforces your instruction.
Aligned with SIPPS (K–12) and Being a Reader (K–5), CC PAL adapts to each student’s skill level, delivering just-right challenges that build engagement and growth while giving you clear insights into progress. Simplify your digital tools, make the most of independent work time, and accelerate student learning—all with CC PAL.
The CC PAL app comes with purchase of SIPPS and/or Being a Reader. First-year access is included with each classroom package; annual subscription required for continued access.
Built for Students. Teachers. Leaders.
Students
- It’s playful and interactive: Independent retrieval practice is fun and engaging.
- It’s adaptive: Each student gets practice at their skill level, so they’re challenged but never frustrated.
- It gives students choice: They pick which activities to play and texts to read.
- It grows with them: Students get years of support, from foundational skills through advanced phonics and morphology.
Teachers
- It’s powerful: CC PAL aligns with SIPPS and Being a Reader instruction, helping students progress.
- It’s concise: Just 3 sessions per week, 8 minutes per session.
- It’s zero prep: The app ensures each student gets “just-right” practice.
- It’s all-in-one: Decodable texts, student recording, and skills practice in one place.
- It’s perfect for independent work: Students practice while teachers work with small groups.
Leaders
- It gives visibility: See implementation health, student practice, and skill acquisition across a district or school.
- It makes progress measurable: Track sessions, practice time, and student performance.
- It surfaces gaps: View performance across five core foundational skill domains.
- It enables action: Drill down to school, teacher, and program-level data to celebrate wins and target support.
Backed by Research
Research shows that targeted, adaptive phonics practice can accelerate students’ decoding and phonics mastery. This research helped inform the phonics practice engine now powering CC PAL.
View the randomized controlled trial conducted in San Francisco Unified schools.
How CC PAL Works for Teachers
With CC PAL, powerful independent retrieval practice is easy. Just 3 CC PAL sessions per week, for 8 minutes per session, and your students will be on their way to foundational skills mastery!
Set Up Your Students in Seconds
Just set the app with each student’s starting point in SIPPS or Being a Reader, and CC PAL will deliver retrieval practice that advances alongside the instruction that student is receiving.
View Real-Time Data
Track progress in real time with the teacher dashboard—view data at the individual, group, or classroom levels, including:
- Average practice time per day (per subgroup and student)
- Average days per week (per subgroup and student)
- Top spelling-sounds reviewed (per subgroup and student)
- Top errors (per student)
- Letter sounds and high-frequency words reviewed (per student)
- Broad performance trends and item-level analysis of comprehension data
(per subgroup and student)
How CC PAL Works for School and District Administrators
CC PAL gives district and school leaders real-time, high-level visibility into implementation health, student practice time, and skill acquisition across their schools—all from a single, intuitive view.
What District Admins Can See & Do:
- Monitor Implementation Fidelity: Track active students, sessions per week, and minutes per session to ensure schools are meeting the high-impact 3x/week benchmark.
- Identify Skill Acquisition & Gaps: View district-wide accuracy across five core foundational skill domains—Letter Recognition, Phonics, High-Frequency Words, Word Reading, and Comprehension—with clear visual indicators.
- Drill Down to School & Classroom Levels: Move from district-wide summaries to specific school, teacher, and program-level data across SIPPS® and Being a Reader™ to celebrate wins, identify gaps, and target support.
How CC PAL Works for Students
3 Sessions Per Week, 8 Minutes Per Session is All It Takes!
CC PAL offers a variety of interactive, engaging, and instructionally-aligned activities tailored to each student’s foundational skill level. Activities include:
Letter Recognition
Letter Train, Letter Puzzle, Lunchroom Letters —
Build letter-name fluency in fun ways.
Phonemic Awareness & Early Decoding
Sketch-a-Sound, Letter Leaders, Write-a-Word —
Develop early spelling and writing skills through interactive tracing and matching exercises.
Sound Detective, Sound Safari, Sound Gallery —
Strengthen sound-symbol connections through auditory and visual activities.
Phonics & Decoding Mastery
Word Golf, Word Find, Guided Spelling – Strengthen phonemic awareness, decoding, and encoding skills.
Advanced Phonics, Morphology, and Word Study
Super Syllables, Read-by-Syllable, Build That Word — Build fluency with polysyllabic decoding.
Morpheme Mania, Puzzle Player — Explore prefixes, suffixes, and base words.
Rhyme Time, Match the Vowel — Strengthen phonemic awareness with fun, time-based challenges.
Word Web, Crossword, Word Magician — Master vocabulary depth and word relationships through homophones, synonyms, antonyms, and grade-level spelling.
Tug of Words, See Saw Antonyms, Word Power — Manipulate antonyms and synonyms to accelerate word precision and retention.
Connected Text & Comprehension
Learning Library — Targeted word- and sentence-level practice followed by full decodable texts.
Comprehension Checks — Quick checks following every selection to ensure students move from decoding to deep understanding.
Syntax & Vocabulary
Riddles, Fun Facts, Word Skills — Practice sentence construction, grammatical structures, and rich vocabulary exposure.
Break It — Practice breaking sentences into subjects and predicates.
Try Out CC PAL!
Experience CC PAL student-facing activities in a free interactive demo.