In response to the critical number of older students needing help with reading skills, Lexia developed Strategies for Older Students. The activities in Strategies for Older students are specifically designed to remediate basic reading skills while offering age-appropriate content and interface. The focus of the activities helps students to increase automatic word recognition by reinforcing phonic elements and sound symbol relationship. Activities in SOS provide extensive practice in everything from basic phonological awareness to advanced word attack skills all in a supportive, age-appropriate format.
In Levels 1, 2 and 3, students practice the decoding and word-attack strategies necessary for automatic word recognition in context. Students who have mastered basic skills may start at Level 4 and work on word-attack strategies for multi-syllable words as well as comprehension skills at the sentence and paragraph level. Level 5 of Strategies for Older Students addresses structural analysis. At this level, students practice the more complex skills necessary for fluent reading, including prefixes, suffixes, Latin and Greek root meanings, special accents and additional sentence level comprehension.
Benefits and Features
- A broad range of activities (basic to advanced) enables readers of all levels to improve their skills.
- Interactive exercises branch automatically, providing practice where needed and increasing in difficulty when the student is ready.
- Students work independently, thereby increasing confidence in their skills.
- Directions are available in Spanish; aiding non English-speaking students to progress more quickly.
- Easy-to-read Reports provide teachers with invaluable information about students’ progress and skill development.
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