Newcomer lesson adaptation · built on DLI methodology

Grade-level content, legible to every learner.

Legible Learning adapts the units your teachers already run for newcomer English learners at every WIDA level: comprehensible-input scaffolds, sentence frames, and L1 bridges. Drafted by AI in minutes. Signed off line-by-line by a DLI-trained linguist.

Get one unit adapted free → See it on a real lesson

No platform to buy. No login for your teachers. Just the unit, ready to teach.

FRAGMENTS  →  MEANING
0million+ English learners in U.S. schools
0languages can arrive in a single district
1 teacheris usually expected to scaffold for all of them
Live example · Grade 7 science

One lesson. Four entry points.

The same photosynthesis text, re-rendered at each WIDA level. Click through what each newcomer would actually receive.

Sentence frame (to speak or write)

Every tier carries the same grade-level idea. No newcomer waits to "learn English first."

How it works

Send a unit on Monday.
Teach every learner by Friday.

01

Send one real unit

Not a sample we invented. The actual lesson your teachers will run next month, in whatever shape it lives: slides, packet, PDF.

02

AI drafts every tier

A language model re-renders the unit at WIDA levels 1–4: comprehensible-input scaffolds, sentence frames, visual word banks, and L1 bridges in your students' actual home languages.

AI speed, human standard
03

A linguist signs off

Every artifact is reviewed line-by-line against second-language-acquisition craft before it reaches a classroom. The AI is fast. The signature is human.

Where the method comes from

The most intensive language school in the world is not in a university.

I spent two years at the Defense Language Institute taking Korean from zero to operational proficiency. DLI is how the U.S. military builds working linguists on a deadline: pure comprehensible input, relentless scaffolding, hard assessment gates.

Your newcomers are on a deadline too. They get one shot at seventh grade. Legible Learning applies the same scaffolding discipline to the units they sit in front of every day, at a fraction of the cost of hand-building it.

U.S. Air Force veteran DLI-trained linguist K-12 instructional consultant
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"Comprehensible input isn't a buzzword to me. It's how I learned to think in another language with the clock running. Your students deserve craft at that standard."

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Zachary J. Thomas Founder, Legible Learning
The funnel, minus the funnel

The first unit is free.

Send one real unit from your fall scope. It comes back adapted at every WIDA level, ready before your newcomers walk in. If the craft holds up, we talk. If it doesn't, you keep the unit and we part friends.

One full unit re-rendered at WIDA tiers 1–4
Scaffolds, sentence frames, and visual word banks per tier
L1 bridges in the languages actually in your building
Reviewed line-by-line before it touches a classroom
Or download the one-page sample first (no email needed)

Tell me where to send it.

Replies come from a person, not a sequence. Usually within two business days.

Prefer email? legiblelearning@gmail.com