The Lexia Story

Inspired by a parent’s passion to help his son and other struggling readers Founded in 1984 with private funding and grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Developed in collaboration with leading reading researchers and dedicated school systems

ㆍ40% of students across the nation cannot read at a basic level: National Assessment of Education Progress

ㆍ70 % of older readers require some form of remediation: Carnegie Corporation of New York and Alliance for Excellent Education

ㆍAlmost half the students living in urban areas cannot read at a basic level: National Assessment of Education Progress

ㆍStudent abilities and needs are diverse
- 19% of children ages 5~17 don’t speak English at home
- Minority students make up 43 % of public school enrollment
- Two million students are placed in special education each year due to reading failure

ㆍThe issues are complex
- NCLB creates accountability requirements
- Limited time in the school day
- Demands of high stakes testing,
- Need for differentiated and data driven instruction
- Budgets are stretched thin

Lexia Meets the Challenge

- Addresses the needs of all student abilities through individualized, intensive practice
- Demonstrated results accelerating student skill acquisition
- Informs and differentiates instruction
- Aligns with national and state standards
- Supports and strengthens core reading curriculum

Four Types of Learners

Percentages in each group vary in some schools as many as 20 % are in SPED and 60-70% would benefit from explicit instruction.

Four Types of Learners

ㆍTIER Ⅰ : Enrichment and Reinforcement - Supports core reading programs with accelerated independent phonics practice
ㆍTIER Ⅱ : Supplemental - Strengthens reading sloills for students who need practice in explicit phonics strategies
ㆍTIER Ⅲ : Intensive Support - Provides extended practice to develop foundational phonics strategies

Demonstrated Results

- Validated by Research: Rigorous outcomes studies show significant reading gains
- Proven Methodology: Based on the structured, sequential and cumulative Orton-Gillingham approach
- A track record of success: 22 years, over 10,000 schools and 1 million students

Informs and Differentiates Instruction

- On screen alerts notify teachers of student performance
- Detailed student and class reports identify skills in requiring additional instruction
- Performance and demographic data enable data driven decision making requirements

Aligns with National and State Standards

Lexia delivers intensive, explicit and structured practice in skills that support:
- Phonological Awareness
- Phonics
- Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension>

Teachers believe in Lexia

“After 1 year of using LEXIA, I'm convinced that Early Reading, Primary Reading and Strategies for Older Students helped us achieve AYP.”

Marice Diakite
Principal

Students Love it!

My students are always eager to go to Lexia. They are highly motivated and engaged by the program. All children are successful because of the independent nature of the Lexia program.”

Donna M. Felzani, Teacher

Lexia Early Reading Ages 4-6
Introduces phonological principles and the alphabet, helping students master critical early literacy skills

Level 1 :	Develops phonemic and phonological awareness. Activities reinforce the precursors to reading; rhyming, word segmentations, and sound blending. The activities in this level do not require alphabetic knowledge.
Level 2 :	Introduces alphabet skills. There are five activities; three activities introduce consonants, one activity focuses on short vowels and one activity introduces letter combinations. Students are asked to listen for beginning and ending sounds, including digraphs.

Primary Reading Ages 5-8
Ensures mastery of basic phonological skills and introduces more advanced phonics principles

Level 1 :	Transition to decoding. phonemic awareness, sound-symbol correspondence, basic decoding.
Level 2 :	Short Vowel Words>; including CVC, blends, and digraphs.
Level 3 :	Silent-e: long-vowel (silent-e) words, sound segmenting, contextual information.
Level 4 :	Vowel Combinations, Vowel-r: Vowel combinations, vowel-r words, word-attack strategies and conceptual reasoning.
Level 5 :	Review: Words in context (sentences and paragraphs)

Strategies for Older Students Ages 9-Adult
Sophisticated, age appropriate user interface engages older students with extensive practice in a wide range of skills, from basic phonological awareness to advanced word attack and vocabulary

Level 1 :	Develops automatic recognition of short vowel, one-syllable words. Phonological awareness of sound segments in initial, medial and final positions, including digraphs.
Level 2 :	Short vowel words with blends and digraphs and long vowel words. Develop word-attack strategies, sound segmentation, short and long vowel sounds, practice in context.
Level 3 :	Decoding two-syllable words. Advanced word-attack strategies and reinforce phonological awareness.
Level 4 :	Word-attack strategies for multi-syllable words. Open, closed and consonant-le syllables. Single word, sentences and paragraphs in contextual material.
Level 5 :	Structural analysis as a means of word-attack. Anglo-Saxon, Greek and Latin Word roots as well as special accent

Lexia Quick Reading Test ®

The LEXIA Quick Reading Test® offers a quick placement for student for student into the appropriate Lexia program and level. Within five-to-eight minutes, teachers gain an indispensable snapshot of a student’s reading skills, strengths, and gaps. This test determines a student’s ability to use word-attack strategies and evaluates automaticity with basic sight words. A huge time saver, it automatically tracks responses, interprets them, and generates reports that summarize a student’s performance and identifies where practice or instruction is needed. Reports may reflect one student’s progress or that of the whole class.

- Quick decoding screen that evaluates word identification, word-attack skills and automaticity
- Administered one-on-one in 5 to 8 minutes

Lexia Comprehensive Reading TestTM

- Computer-based reading assessment evaluates full range of reading abilities including:
-Kindergarten Readiness
-Phonics and Decoding Skills
-Sight Words
-Burns and Roe Reading Informal
-Extensive reporting features provide vital information