CC PAL Student Practice App

The App Built for Foundational Skills Mastery

CC PAL is the practice app for foundational skills mastery, giving students the independent retrieval practice necessary to solidify and retain essential reading skills.

Aligned with Collaborative Classroom’s evidence-based scope and sequence, CC PAL meets each student at their individual instructional level with interactive practice activities and connected text reading.

Why CC PAL?

• Daily, Targeted Practice: Reinforces previously taught foundational skills instruction with interactive activities that provide skill, word, sentence, and text-level practice.
• Aligned with Instruction: Follows Collaborative Classroom’s evidence-based foundational skills scope and sequence.
• Self-Leveling for Growth: Adjusts to each student’s needs, ensuring just-right challenges.
• Age-Appropriate Activities: Designed to engage both younger students (K–3) and older striving readers (4–12).
• Teacher Insights at a Glance: Provides educators with real-time progress tracking.
• Research-Based Design: Rooted in the science of learning’s insights about sufficient, deliberate practice.

Student Practice Activities

The CC PAL app offers a variety of interactive, engaging 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

Burst-A-Balloon, Word Magic, Spelling Sound Match— Reinforce letter-sound relationships
and blending.

Advanced Phonics & Morphology

Rhyme Time, Match the Vowel — Strengthen
phonemic awareness with fun, time-based
challenges.

Super Syllables, Read-by-Syllable — Build fluency
with polysyllabic decoding.

Morpheme Mania, Puzzle Player — Explore prefixes,
suffixes, and base words to expand vocabulary.

Connected Text Reading

Learning Library – Students engage with
decodable books, progressing from word-level
to sentence-level practice before reading the
full text.

Teacher Insights at a Glance

CC PAL includes a teacher-facing web-based app that provides real-time insights into usage, trends, and performance of users, including instructional subgroups and individual students.

• 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)

I have found my students are highly engaged with the app. The activities hook students, and they look forward to them!