10/21/2024

Secret Sauce for Tennessee Literacy Success: Lexia English + Core5

Challenge: A growing Emergent Bilingual student population, many of whom speak little to no English. 

Solution: Lexia English Language Development + Lexia Core5 Reading

Tennessee’s public schools serve more than 60,000 Emergent Bilingual students who speak more than 150 languages. These students have varying levels of English proficiency, making it crucial for districts to implement effective, evidence-based strategies to close the achievement gap. By tailoring these strategies to meet the unique needs of these students, we can empower educators to help them succeed.

Educators from one district share their secret sauce: Integrating Lexia English Language Development™ before and alongside Lexia® Core5® Reading.

Lexia English is designed to help Emergent Bilingual students in grades K–6 acquire higher language proficiency levels of English. By meeting students where they are, Core5 and Lexia English create a powerful recipe for language and literacy success that addresses the needs of diverse learners.

Taylor Stewart and Kathleen Brinson, teachers and educational leaders in one such district, piloted Lexia English and found it to be an invaluable addition to Core5. Their experience showed students using Lexia English could smoothly transition to Core5, ensuring a continuous and supportive learning journey.

Across the district, Emergent Bilingual students start in Lexia English and move into Core5 when they’re ready—usually around the two-year mark.

This is especially beneficial for students with little to no English experience, as the program builds listening and speaking foundations, leading to reading proficiency. 

Like Core5, Lexia English offers real-time student progress data reporting through myLexia®. Educators and administrators are able to make informed decisions to accelerate learning, improving student literacy and test scores.

From recipe to results with Lexia English and Core5.