Arkansas Students See Improvement in 17 Days With Lexia

When Karen Henery decided to give Lexia® a try, she conducted a test. 

Henery, the director of ESOL and Multilingual Services for the Little Rock School District in Arkansas, wanted to see how Lexia’s solutions would work with ESOL students with very little or no reading ability. The results were thrilling. 

“After 17 days, half of them had either moved into kindergarten level or to the end of kindergarten level,” she says in this powerful video.

Henery shares how Lexia® Core5® Reading, Lexia® PowerUp Literacy®, and Lexia English Language Development™ have helped educators in her district improve literacy skills for non-native English speakers. She highlights that Lexia solutions, including Lexia English, feature a diverse range of characters who look and sound like students who might feel like they stand out instead of fitting in. 

“To have a character who is representative of them, and the characters are diverse, and look like them and sound like them, I think it's a validating experience from a student's perspective,” Henery says.

Little Rock educators also found Lexia to be helpful with students showing characteristics of dyslexia. Henery says the programs not only help to identify students who need intervention, but they also allow teachers to monitor and track their struggles and their successes. 

Are educators in your district facing some of the same challenges? If so, take a few minutes to learn more about how Little Rock teachers changed the outcomes for their ESOL students with Lexia.