In the May Issue:
- Lexia Launches New Reading Software: Lexia Reading v5
- Educators and Students Give Lexia Reading v5 Rave Reviews
- Lexia’s Research and Education Department Update
Lexia Launches New Reading Software: Lexia Reading v5
Lexia Learning Systems has successfully launched Lexia Reading v5, a new web-enabled, Lexia-hosted version of its award-winning reading software. The culmination of years of reading research and technical development, Lexia Reading v5 includes 3 proven Lexia Reading titles—Early Reading, Primary Reading, and Strategies for Older Students—and a newly enhanced management system with extensive reporting features.
Lexia Reading v5’s redesigned management system generates powerful, comprehensive reports. Superintendents, administrators and teachers can instantly and easily monitor students' skill levels, progress and usage on an individual, class, or school basis from on-site or remote locations. Teachers can use reports to differentiate individual instruction, identify students in need of additional support and assign independent, targeted skills activities. Lexia Reading v5 supports students in the 3-tier Response to Intervention (RtI) model of reading instruction. Now with Lexia Reading v5’s district access program, district-wide reporting and volume pricing are available for an additional fee. Administrators can use the critical information derived from Lexia’s new reporting capabilities to drive decision-making and to make sure no child is left behind, ensuring that their schools and district meet adequate yearly progress guidelines.
With Lexia Reading v5, Lexia Reading software will be available to students of all ability levels from Pre-K through adult - anytime, anywhere. The web-enabled Lexia Reading v5 offers a new School-to-Home Connection which provides students on-demand access to the software from home or any remote internet-connected computer with installed software. Lexia Reading v5, like all Lexia reading software, helps students develop essential reading skills with explicit practice in phonemic awareness and phonics while promoting gains in fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.
Since 1984, Lexia Learning Systems has been dedicated to developing software to improve reading skills acquisition and cognitive development. Many years of rigorous school-based research have shown that using Lexia Reading software results in significant gains in reading skills performance and helps students master the essential skills necessary to become successful readers for life. Currently, Lexia Reading software supports core reading curriculum in over 10,000 schools in North America. With the introduction of Lexia Learning v5 that number is growing every day.
Educators and Students Give Lexia Reading v5 Rave Reviews
“Our district is currently using Lexia Reading software in K through 2nd grade and we are impressed with the results. Rapid gains by our students are evidenced by the progress reports generated by the program. The reports are easy to access and you can see at a glance how students, classrooms, and schools are progressing through the levels.”
—Brian Fry, Curriculum Director from Ennis, Texas
“Students come into the computer lab, sit down and log in. It’s that easy. I don’t need to instruct them because the program clearly states the instructions. I enjoy watching them progress through the different levels. It gives them a confidence boost. You can’t beat that!”
—Tawnya Crow, Computer Lab Coordinator, Bowie Elementary School
“We are getting rave reviews from everyone using Lexia Reading v5. I had one student today that said he would rather work on Lexia than go to recess. That was quite a compliment.”
—Carolyn Mucci, Reading Consultant, Andrew Avenue Elementary School
“Lexia is like having another teacher in the room to provide individualized instruction. The quality of the program and the ease of student management make it a perfect companion to my instruction and play a big part in my students’ increase in reading skills.”
—Beverlee Thomas, Teacher, Fossil Ridge Intermediate School
“Lexia v5 provides teachers and administrators a daily snapshot of students’ needs and progress—what skills a student can do and what skills need to be re-taught. This critical information is powerful for daily planning of instruction, date meetings, SPED team meetings and at parent conferences.”
—Grace Marie Greeno, Director of Literacy, Revere Public Schools
“In the fall of 2007, the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children piloted Lexia Reading V5 as a technology supplement in the hospital’s Luke Waites Center for Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities. The Lexia Program has been a valuable addition to the curriculum Take Flight: A Comprehensive Intervention for Students with Dyslexia. The program provides independent practice and reinforcement for the phonological awareness, phonics and decoding skills the students are learning. The children look forward to their time on the computer and enjoy using Lexia to improve their reading skills.”
—Karen Avrit, Director of Dyslexia Education, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children
Lexia’s Research and Education Department Update
Lexia Learning Systems is close to completing its largest scientific study to assess the effectiveness of Lexia Reading v5. Over 900 students from Ennis, Texas in grades Kindergarten through Second Grade along with a large subset of English Language Learners (ELL) participated in the study.
Students received instruction consistent with the research-based teaching methods identified by the National Reading Panel and the “No Child Left Behind” Act of 2001, which included systematic instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. The aim of the research is to measure the effectiveness of Lexia Reading v5 software as a supplement to classroom instruction.
Academic consultants worked with Lexia Learning Systems to ensure that the study met rigorous scientific standards, including the use of treatment and control groups, pre- and post- testing, and standardized norm-referenced measures. Currently, the pre and post- test data is being analyzed. Anecdotal reports from teachers participating in the treatment group have been positive. Results from this study will be available next school year.