Guided Reading Built on the Histories of Our Students
iLitBridge pairs rigorous phonics and vocabulary instruction with Lexile-leveled texts drawn from African American history and the African Diaspora. Every lesson spans two days and ships with a teacher edition and printable student packet.
Phonics
Explicit skill, blending ladder, transfer words, decodable sentences, and Day 2 dictation.
Word Work
Five to six vocabulary words with morphology, context sentences, and word sorts.
Text Reading
Lexile-leveled literary and informational texts in eight numbered paragraphs.
Comprehension
Oral and written questions at literal, inferential, and critical-thinking levels.
Lesson materials are licensed, not public
The full library — 30 lessons per cycle, ten per grade, refreshed each quarter — is available only to schools, districts, and organizations with a signed iLitBridge intervention program contract. Educators create an account, an administrator verifies the account against the contract, and only then do texts, teacher editions, and printables unlock.
- 1. Request accessEducators submit their name, work email, and school or district.
- 2. Contract checkAn iLitBridge administrator approves or declines each request.
- 3. Full libraryApproved teachers open every lesson, teacher edition, and printable.
Two Day Lesson Flow
Day 1 · 30 minutes
- Phonics warm-up with blending ladder and transfer words
- Word work: introduce the first vocabulary set
- Text introduction and purpose setting
- Read paragraphs 1–4 with teacher-edition stops
- Oral comprehension: literal and early inferential
Day 2 · 30 minutes
- Phonics review and dictation
- Word work: remaining words plus quick check
- Fluency reread, then read paragraphs 5–8
- Oral comprehension: inferential and critical thinking
- Written response with sentence starter and scoring key
Every lesson includes three print-ready documents: the teacher lesson plan, the annotated teacher edition of the text, and the student packet.