Modern decoding tools for intermediate & secondary classrooms
Reading intervention for older students who still need the code.
Juniper Reading CoLab helps teachers identify decoding gaps, deliver targeted instruction and practice, and move students from word reading to fluency, comprehension, and written response.
Placement Results
Student: Jordan M. · Grade 8
OVERALL PLACEMENT
Level 4
Recommended start: Syllable Types & Multisyllabic Words.
Lesson 12 · Vowel Teams: ea, ee
STEP 2 OF 5 · SPLIT THE SYLLABLES
suc · ceed
Break it. Tap it. Read it.
He can read “frog.”
He’s 13.
No one ever taught him how to read
“establishment.”
Decode breaks it down
Then the morphemes that carry meaning
He doesn’t need easier books, cuter workbooks, or gamified apps. He needs the code.
The code unlocks the strategies. The strategies unlock the pronunciation and the meaning.
Reading intervention for upper grades shouldn't feel elementary.
Students can understand more than they can decode.
Many older readers comprehend complex ideas but stall when multisyllabic words appear.
Teachers need a precise starting point.
Guessing wastes intervention time. Navigate points to the exact skill gap.
Practice has to preserve dignity.
Decode gives explicit word-reading practice in a format built for older learners.
The Juniper Reading CoLab Pathway
A clear, research-aligned path from decoding to independent reading.
Navigate and Decode are live today. The rest of the pathway is in active development.
Find the Gap
Navigate helps teachers place students quickly and confidently.
Rebuild the Code
Decode delivers targeted phonics and syllable pattern instruction and practice.
Build Automaticity
Fluency helps students read accurately and smoothly.
Make Meaning
Close Read supports comprehension with academic text.
Write with Evidence
Constructed Response turns reading into clear, confident writing.
Sustain & Scale
Coach supports teachers with implementation, PD, and data clarity.
Two ways to start today.
Navigate finds the gap. Decode gives students the practice.
Free diagnostic placement
A screener and placement tool that maps each student's decoding profile across the full scope and sequence — so intervention starts at the exact skill gap, not a guess.
Independent instruction & practice
Multisyllabic decoding instruction and practice built for older learners: explicit teaching, structured word analysis, short repeatable routines, and teacher-visible progress — without the kid stuff.
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.
Built for older readers.Not built to feel elementary.
Juniper Reading CoLab gives intermediate and secondary students structured reading support with a modern, respectful experience.
How teachers useJuniper Reading CoLab.
Short, repeatable routines fit intervention blocks, flexible grouping, and independent practice.
Teacher-built.Improved with every release.
Juniper Reading CoLab is a reading product studio built through classroom pilots, structured feedback, and disciplined iteration.
[ The Model Behind the Tools ]
This is not curriculum publishing. It's disciplined iteration.
AI accelerates drafting. Teachers validate what ships.
Designed by a classroom teacher turned MTSS Implementation Manager & Literacy Specialist
Founding Member Spots Now Open
Limited spots available
FOR YOUR SCHOOL OR DISTRICT
Screening and intervention for the students no one built for.
- Screen every student in grades 3–12 with Navigate, free, about 15 minutes each
- One district dashboard: placements and progress across every teacher
- First names only, no student accounts, US-hosted, no session recording
- Teacher onboarding included; a rollout doesn't wait on a training day
- Every update starts with what teachers and students report from real classrooms
- School and district pricing is quoted separately
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