English Language Learners
Lexia Reading programs provides the practice that ELL students need to master important reading skills in English.
Students entering U.S. classrooms speaking little or no English represent the fastest growing portion of the school age population. Seventy percent of these students speak Spanish as their first language. To support these students, Lexia reading program have Spanish language directions incorporated as a standard feature. Students with limited English proficiency can receive the basic directional commands of the program in Spanish while they engage the practice activities in English. This feature allows Spanish speaking students with very limited English skills to understand and use Lexia reading programs independently.
All ELL students learning to read English are faced with the challenge of learning a new language system including new elements of phonology, vocabulary, and grammar. These students need explicit and intensive instruction in word decoding as they begin to map the sound structures they are learning to English orthography. Lexia provides ELL students with an extraordinarily large number of opportunities for explicit and repeated modeling and practice. The programs use extremely effective strategies that support ELL students including setting clear goals, activating prior knowledge, explicitly introducing new concepts and skills, frequent modeling, scaffolding skills in hierarchical levels and providing immediate feedback. Lexia’s core content elements coupled with a systematic and structured design provide an effective bridge for ELL students to transition to reading English.