Built for the readers
nobody built for.
You’ve seen the “intervention” programs. So have your students. Cartoon rewards, baby fonts, 1st-grade content with a “Grade 6” sticker on the cover — older struggling readers spot condescension instantly, and they disengage just as fast.
Juniper Reading CoLab is the ecosystem that was missing: structured word-level literacy built for grades 3–12 from the ground up. Navigate finds the gaps. Decode teaches the patterns. Every tool that follows builds on what came before.
Juniper Navigate
The free phonics screener and placement tool. Teachers enter phonics assessment data — from the built-in adaptive Juniper Screener or tools like CORE Phonics, DIBELS 8, aimswebPlus, FASTBridge, and easyCBM. Navigate identifies each student’s instructional starting point — the first level where decoding gaps appear — and generates a complete 8-level scope and sequence for every student.
Assessment coverage
Navigate accepts results from CORE Phonics Survey, DIBELS 8, aimswebPlus, FASTBridge, and easyCBM — but only the built-in Juniper Screener is designed to the same scope and sequence as Juniper Decode, covering all eight levels. Imported assessments cover some levels and not others; Navigate shows you exactly which levels each tool can and cannot see, and recommends the screener when a placement lands near a coverage gap.
- 8 levels from alphabetic foundation through morphemic mastery, including the CLOVER syllable-type framework
- Class-wide and individual scope & sequence views
- Teacher-verified placement with manual override
- No student PII required — first name and last initial only
Navigate — class roster with adaptive placement levels and scope & sequence progress
Navigate tells the teacher where to start.
Decode gives the student what to practice.
Juniper Decode
Structured phonics intervention for grades 3–12, from foundational patterns through multisyllabic word analysis and morphology. The app delivers all instruction and practice — the teacher doesn’t have to be the expert beside them.
- CLOVER syllable system — all six types
- Gradual release: app models → guided → independent
- Wrong answers get coaching, not penalties
- Dignity-first framing: “You weren’t taught this” — not “You’re behind”
14-day free trial · No credit card required
Up to 20 students: $9.99/mo or $79/yr · 21–40 students: $15.99/mo or $129/yr · 41+ students: Contact us
Why students don’t disengage here.
Developmental psychologist Dr. David Yeager’s research shows the adolescent brain is wired to seek respect — and to shut down at the first hint of humiliation. Most intervention tools trigger exactly that shutdown. Every design decision in Decode applies what Yeager calls the mentor mindset: high standards with high support.
Mastery thresholds on every decoding pattern — the bar never lowers because a student is struggling.
Gradual release on every unit: the app models, guides, then steps back. Wrong answers get coaching, not penalties.
“You weren’t taught this” — never “you’re behind.” The gap belongs to the missing instruction, not the student.
Students see why an answer was wrong — never a mystery score, never a black-box algorithm.
Yeager, D. (2024). 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People. Before becoming a researcher, Dr. Yeager was a middle school teacher.
[ How It All Connects ]
Navigate diagnoses. The tools deliver instruction. Coach builds teacher capacity. Every product feeds data back so teachers always know what to teach next.
[ Coming Soon ]
Juniper Close Read
Structured close reading intervention with nonfiction and fiction tracks. Builds comprehension through evidence-based reading strategies for grades 6–12.
COMING SOONJuniper Fluency
Timed reads, prosody, and automaticity practice that bridges the gap between accurate decoding and fluent reading.
COMING SOONJuniper Constructed Response
Guided writing practice that teaches students to construct clear, evidence-based written responses to what they read. Students learn to restate the question, answer with evidence, cite text, explain their reasoning, and restate their answer.
COMING SOONJuniper Coach
Professional development for educators. Implementation support, teacher routines, error-pattern guidance, and training that extends beyond literacy into the instructional practices that make any intervention sustainable.
COMING SOON