Lexia Reading Core 5 is a phonics-based computer program designed to help struggling readers from pre-K to adult learn foundational literacy skills like phonemic awareness and decoding through engaging games and activities. Research shows Lexia can be effective when implemented correctly, with students working on one skill at a time until mastery while educators monitor progress. Lexia has won several awards for transforming education through accessible and enjoyable technology that motivates students to improve their reading ability.

1. Lexia Reading, Core 5
The latest Lexia reading intervention
program buildings on Lexia’s award
winning software, and also adheres to
the common core state standards.

2. Lexia Reading System
• Lexia Learning Systems is a Phonics-based
reading program that uses computer software
designed to help struggling readers learn using
“word-attack skills.”
• Word Attack skills are defined as “the ability to
analyze unfamiliar words visually and
phonetically.”

3. Stages of Lexia
• Lexia Early Reading (ages 4-6): Helps students with phonemic
awareness, phonological awareness, and sound-symbol
correspondence skills.
• Lexia Primary Reading (ages 5-8): Helps students to master
phonemic awareness, sound-symbol correspondence, word-attack
strategies and early comprehension skills.
• Lexia Strategies (ages 9-adult): Has interactive activities designed
especially for older students to provide practice in phonological
awareness, decoding skills, word level fluency and vocabulary words
including advanced word forms.

4. Why Lexia?
Research shows that Lexia can be highly effective when
implemented correctly.

5. Research shows Lexia
“Closing the Gap”

6. How does Lexia work?
Designed to Helps The interface is
work with a educators, but engaging and
literacy doesn’t replace is age
program. them. appropriate.
Students work Students are Older students
on one skill at learning while use an interface
that is more
a time. When playing word mature, and
they master it, games. comfortable for
they move on. them.

7. Lexia’s lessons in Phonics are engaging and fun. Students
are motivated by their own success as they move through the
easy to navigate program.

8. When is Lexia needed?
How often should it be used?
• Lexia can be used by • Lexia should be used for
any student learning to approximately 15 to 30
minute sessions, two or
read.
three days a week.
• It is most effective for
• Lexia should be used more
struggling readers in pre-
often for Tier 3 students
kindergarten to 5th grade
and less often for students
who need to build
that don’t need intensive
phonemic awareness,
intervention.
phonics, vocabulary,
and/or comprehension.

9. Using Lexia: Teachers should
increase the intensity for Tier 3
students to five days a week.

10. Lexia and ELL Students
• Supporting English Language Learners
• This study, published in 2011 in the Bilingual Research
Journal, demonstrates that Lexia supports English
Language Learners (ELL students) in acquiring
foundational literacy skills. The study was conducted in
Kindergarten classes using a bilingual education model in
a rural Texas district, where all students received reading
instruction based on a core, phonics-based curriculum.

11. www.bestevidence.org
• According to an 168 paged researched based article collaboratively written to
provide research on the achievement outcomes of four types of approaches to
improve the beginning reading success of children in kindergarten and first
grade titled, Effective Beginning Reading Programs: A Best-Evidence
Synthesis the brief states, “It is important to note that studies of all of these
programs (including Lexia Learning Systems) found positive effects on
comprehension and/or total reading measures, not just decoding measures that
would appear more slanted toward phonetic approaches (pg. 72).” However, it
also states, “It clearly matters a great deal how reading is taught, and an
emphasis on phonics may be necessary but it is not sufficient to ensure
meaningful reading gains (pg.72).”

12. Businesswire.com
“Lexia Reading Wins Prestigious Awards from District
Adminitrsation, eSchool News and EdTEch Digest,” Lexia Reading
won the 2011 EdTech Digest “Cool Tool” award “for outstanding
contributions in transforming education through technology.” Lexia
Reading was also named as one of the Reader’s Choice Top 100
products in 2010, and 2011, by District Administration magazine. In
January 2012, Lexia was selected by educators in the eSchool News
2012 Readers’ Choice awards program. Lexia attributes it’s success to
it’s easy access at home and in the classroom, and the fact that it
engages students in learning activities that they enjoy doing.

13. • Florida Center for Reading Research
• The Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) categorized Lexia in 2008 as a "Comprehensive
Reading Program" able to address the needs of students in a wide range of grades and skills levels.
Lexia was deemed appropriate in more categories than any other program within the FCRR review
framework.
• Intelligent Branching: “Once a student is placed at the appropriate level and activity based on the
teacher’s assessment of the student’s needs, a recursive branching system that is built into the Lexia
software automatically directs a student to the needed level of activity difficulty, depending on the
student’s response.” – Florida Center for Reading Research
• Student Experience: “Students are given support throughout the activities with cues offered when
needed and additional lessons provided when they experience difficulty.” – Florida Center for
Reading Research

14. Success!

15. Credits
• http://www.bestevidence.org/word/begin_read_Jun_23_2009.pdf
• http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120117005956/en/Lexia-
Reading-Wins-Prestigious-Awards-District-Administration
• http://www.intensiveintervention.org/chart/instructional-intervention-
tools/12858
• http://www.lexialearning.com/product/core5-video