Meet Students and Teachers Where They Are
Lexia’s personalized learning model ensures differentiated, adaptive instruction in support of both students and teachers. By combining solutions for independent learning and face-to-face instruction with our proprietary Assessment Without Testing® approach, we help teachers create individualized learning paths, easily interpret performance data, and motivate students through their own successes.
The Lexia Personalized Learning Model
Independent, Student-Driven Learning
Lexia helps students work independently to develop their critical reading skills through individualized, motivating learning paths. All students, regardless of their skill level, can work at their own pace and the teacher is notified (on web-based reports and via email) when they require support.
Individualized Learning Paths
Students have the opportunity to accelerate beyond their grade-level skills, as they are given the ability to demonstrate proficiency in each skill area and are advanced to the next level in the program if no instruction is needed. For students in need of extra support, Lexia provides a level of scaffolding. If the student still struggles, the program provides explicit instruction on the concepts and rules of the skill, allowing the student to demonstrate proficiency and then return to the scaffolded level and standard-level activities. Personalized instruction ensures that students receive the appropriate intensity and support to acquire the skills they need to become proficient readers.
Motivating and Engaging Interface for Self-directed Learning
Elementary
As elementary students move through the levels of the program, they are engaged and motivated by activities that take students on a journey around the world. Each level of the program represents a different area of the world and introduces new characters that are representative of each region. Within each level, students have the opportunity to decide which skills and activities they want to work on. This allows the students to be self-directed in their learning as they move through the program and their journey around the world.
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For students in grades 6–12, Lexia provides a more age-appropriate interface and allows students to progress independently to higher levels with more complex content based on skill mastery. Since students’ learning within the program is self-directed, they can choose which activities to complete as they work through the rigorous scope and sequence. Motivation for adolescents who may have difficulties with reading is critical, and research suggests that students are more motivated when they are able to monitor their own progress. To support motivation, students are able to view their progress on a personalized dashboard.
Assessment Without Testing
As students work independently in the online activities of Lexia’s programs, real-time performance data is collected through Lexia’s patented Assessment Without Testing, an embedded assessment tool that allows educators to access powerful online data reports through their myLexia® accounts via browser, iPad app, or iPhone app.
Well-Defined Instructional Paths
Powered by Assessment Without Testing, myLexia reports provide a data-driven action plan to take the guesswork out of differentiating instruction and save educators up to 17 days of instructional time. These reports help focus the teacher’s time on the greatest need by prescribing the instructional intensity necessary to help students reach end-of-year benchmarks, as well as by predicting performance before a learner fails.
The action plan identifies skill areas in which the student is currently working, specific skills with which the student needs instruction, program usage based on the student’s recommended minutes in the program, and completed levels.
Prioritized and Group Instruction
Lexia helps educators plan their days by prioritizing the students who need the most help, whether for individual support or group instruction. The programs also offer structured, skill-specific instructional materials that provide scripted, step-by-step strategies for teachers or paraprofessionals to address each student’s skill gaps.
These lessons can be used to meet a variety of instructional models, including pull-out groups with intervention specialists. Once the student receives a lesson, they may be ready to return to independent activities through the online program or they may need additional support.
Preview Educator ReportsTeacher Resources for Classroom Instruction
Lexia not only offers students the support they need to become successful readers and confident learners, it also provides teachers with valuable offline instructional resources. As students work independently in the online activities, real-time performance data is collected through Lexia’s embedded assessment, Assessment Without Testing. Based on this data, Lexia recommends specific resources for face-to-face instruction as well as materials for practice and extension of skills learned online.
Lexia Lessons
Scripted materials that help teachers to provide explicit, multi-sensory instruction in specific skill areas. Lexia Lessons are automatically recommended for students who are struggling based on their performance in the online activities and can be delivered in a variety of ways, such as individual or small-group instruction within the classroom or during pull-out intervention with a specialist.
Lexia Skill Builders
When a student successfully completes an online activity in Lexia’s instructional programs, a set of paper-and-pencil activities are provided to reinforce and extend the learning. Lexia Skill Builders can be incorporated into classroom routines or used for home practice to build independence, increase automaticity, and expand expressive skills.
Lexia Instructional Connections
Instructional Connections provide teaching strategies and collaborative activity ideas to use with all students as a way to introduce, reinforce, or extend skills. These innovative classroom ideas can help teachers structure individual and group activities that integrate speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
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