Pre-K – Elementary School:
Lexia significantly improves reading outcomes in Grades K – 3, as proven in scientifically-based research.
The early elementary years are when students develop the basic reading skills they will rely on and use throughout their lives. Research demonstrates that students who struggle with phonological skills in the early elementary grades are typically at risk of reading failure by 4th grade. Further, the successful remediation of older students with reading difficulties is much more difficult than a successful intervention with students in the early elementary grades. Young children who do not develop accurate and rapid word reading skills are caught in a pattern of repeated failures. They do not develop adequate fluency skills, have slower vocabulary growth and experience low rates of reading practice compared to their peers reading on grade level. They also exhibit high levels of frustration and, ultimately, lose their motivation to read. Given that all school subject areas require reading skills for academic success, the reading failure these students experience in the early elementary grades undermines their learning capacity and limits their educational growth across their life span.
High quality instruction and the opportunity to practice essential reading skills such as phonological awareness, sight word recognition, sound-symbol correspondence and word-attack skills, help student’s develop a foundation for reading success. Lexia programs are designed to support classroom instruction by providing children with individualized independent practice with basic reading skills. All of Lexia Reading programs, Early Reading (ages 4 – 6), Primary Reading (ages 5 – 8) and Strategies for Older Students (age’s 9 – adult) support the development of essential reading skills. The program contents are aligned with the best practices in reading instruction identified by the National Reading Panel Report, Reading First, and the No Child Left Behind Act.