January 2025

Scope and Sequence in the teacher app: The new Scope and Sequence page is now available for teachers in the app! This page is dedicated to showing our amazing lessons to teachers, among other things teachers will be able to see which lessons have read aloud exercises, student led instructions, and teacher led resources!

This is still a first version, many other things will be added later on like assigning lessons directly, integrations in other parts of the app, and even demo links for the contents of the lessons.

The Scope & Sequence page.

Teacher Led Lesson Plans: Kinder Phonics: 93 Teacher led lesson plans for kindergarten are now live in the teacher dashboard in the new Curriculum/Scope & Sequence page, and also in the Kinder phonics lessons guide. These lessons are teacher facing pdf documents covering consonants, short vowels, digraphs, sight/high frequency words, and word families for kindergarten.

In addition to scripted teacher led instruction, each document includes a lesson overview, suggestions for supporting for emergent bilingual students, formative feedback suggestions and materials needed to teach the lesson.

February 2025

Weekly Goals: Teachers can now set a weekly "minimal practice" goal of 15 minutes.

Weekly goals with the new 15-minute option.

Tracking Time Spent: Teachers can now see students' time spent at home directly from the Snapshot page.

Snapshot for a class showing time spent working at home.

Class Transfers: Teachers can now transfer one of their classes to another teacher that is in their school (the "receiving" teacher needs to be associated with a class in the same school, even if the class is archived).

A class being transferred from one teacher to another.

Captions: A new accessibility option, Captions, has been activated for English classes:

the On/Off toggle for captions.

March 2025

Kindergarten High-Frequency Sight Word Direct Instruction: Each high-frequency sight word lesson in the kindergarten scope & sequence now includes improved instruction using the Direct Instruction template. Students are taught and practice how to encode regular words with taught letter sounds. Irregularities are pointed out in words while still focusing attention on the predictable letter-sound combinations.

An example instruction for the irregular 'see'.

Skip Intro Instructions: From now on, students will only get the instructional content at the beginning of the lesson when we estimate that the probability that they succeed on the first practice exercise of the lesson is lower than a given threshold (success rate is higher than 80% in the US and 85% in France.

May 2025

New Feature: Typed Answer Exercises: Lalilo was enhanced with typed answer exercises, allowing students to input responses using their keyboard rather than selecting from multiple choices. This addition was driven by efficacy research showing that typed responses produce more effective learning outcomes than selection-based exercises. Teachers can review students' typed responses in the Answer report.