Lexia Reading Core 5

One program that many schools are using now a days is called the Lexia Reading Core 5, which provides different literacy activities for all students from grade kindergarten to fifth. Many teachers are using this program with struggling readers and ELL students to help them with vocabulary and reading skills. It is a game like instructional program that motivates students to read and comprehend better. It is also very easy and effective. It provides students with words and pictures to help them understand what they mean. Also, students get to play around with words to make sentences. Teachers can personalize the program on the need of the student and can then track the student's progress through out the program. Students can do it independently without the teacher sitting on top of their head on every word they learn. They become more self learners and self dependent. The Lexia Reading Core 5 "provides educators with actionable, norm-referenced and criterion-referenced performance data without interrupting the flow of instruction to administrate a test." Through these assessments teachers are able to save so much testing time to do more important activities that will help the students improve in their reading skills. After assessments are done through the program, teachers are given instructions on what to do with the students "face to face" and what kind of independent work should be given to the student. So this program does not only help improve struggling reader's skills and teach ELL students, but also helps teachers provide the right type of instruction for that certain student depending on their need. Teachers are provided with lessons to help them guide their instruction with struggling readers. "Lexia Lessons are automatically recommended for struggling students 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 interventions with a specialist."