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What is Power Up?
What is Power Up?
PowerUp Literacy™ is designed to help YOU become a proficient readers and confident learner. It will also help your teacher to see what students need extra help with important literacy skills. The goal is to give you the tools to comprehend, analyze, evaluate, and compare literary and informational texts. The program is a mix of work online and work with your teacher in the classroom.
Three Instructional Focuses
Three Instructional Focuses
Word Study
Word Study
Students learn skills and concepts that advance their accuracy and fluency for reading texts, as well as their ability to decode and understand multisyllabic academic words.
Grammar
Grammar
Students build skills with grammar concepts, vocabulary, sentence construction, and the structure of various text genres, while further developing comprehension and composition skills.
Comprehension
Comprehension
Students work with literary and informational texts of increasing complexity while learning new vocabulary and skills and strategies that help them analyze texts for deep meaning and understanding.
Getting Started
Getting Started
Click the icon on your desktop screen that says "Lexia PowerUp Literacy" - this will open your web browser to a login screen.
Make sure "Student" is selected.
Students log in by entering their Username and Password, then clicking Log In. A prompt will ask if your name is correct - click Yes to continue.
Make sure your headphones are on and the volume is up - you will hear audio the moment you are logged in.
Student Online Experience
Student Online Experience
Listening Mode
Listening Mode
When you have selected Listen Mode, the screen is framed in blue. You will need to exit Listen Mode in order to respond to questions.
Streaks
Streaks
Once you answer five questions correctly in a row, you will begin to collect streaks. You will continue to add to your streak record with each correct answer.
Shields
Shields
As you work in the program, you gradually fill in a streak shield. After five units, the shield is complete and can be used to give you a pass on one wrong answer. The shield is deployed automatically when a wrong answer is given. If you get the answer correct after that, you continue your streak.
Student Progress
Student Progress
Your Progress
Your Progress
When you click on the Your Progress Tile on your dashboard, you can see an overview of your progress. You can monitor your usage and progress for each for each strand here.
Student Dashboard
Student Dashboard
YOU are in charge of your learning, so you can choose which activities to complete as you work through the program.
You can also monitor your usage and progress for each for each strand, when you click on Your Progress.
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