5/20/2024
Accelerate Foundational Reading Skills With Data-Driven Lexia Core5 Reading
Waterford School District educators struggled to improve core literacy with balanced literacy instruction alone. Student data showed interventions weren't accelerating foundational reading skills fast enough—only 37% were at or above norms in 2019–2020.
The Michigan district leaders found the solution in Lexia® Core5® Reading, a data-driven Structured Literacy program. After piloting Core5 in 2018–2019, Waterford educators fully implemented it districtwide in 2020 and added it to summer school in 2021.
The results were transformative: By 2022–2023, 93% of Waterford's K–5 students were at or above reading norms on NWEA assessments. A 2022 RAND study validated Core5's effectiveness, finding its students outperformed peers by more than half a standard deviation.
"I never dreamed there would be acceleration support for kids like with Lexia Core5," said Christine Cyporyn, Title I coordinator. "Lexia really was our gateway into the science of reading."
Struggling districts: Follow Waterford's lead and see how evidence-based, data-driven Lexia Core5 Reading can transform core literacy instruction and foundational reading outcomes in elementary schools.
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