Lexia

Description

Lexia Core 5 is an app that differentiates phonics skills for every student. Students are tested and placed in their appropriate starting levels and then get individualized practice from there. The website provides resources for practice and instruction as well as data on each student to help personalize instruction.

Cost: individual license $30-40/student per year, site license $17/student per year

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Details

Lexia is a great phonics resource you can use everyday with your kids. First, you make your account and get students set up. Then the first time students log in they will automatically be directed to take a placement test. Once placed at their starting level, they can start working on skills needed to continue their growth. Students will stay engaged with this app that runs like a game, all while learning and practicing new skills.

Available on: IOS, Google Play and computers

Student Side

The student dashboard provides a great visual for students to see. When students use lexia, they can see their individual goal, how many minutes they have worked this week and how many units they have completed. When students complete a level, the teacher will get the option to print a certificate of completion for that student.

Teacher Side

The teacher side of Lexia is another wonderful place to explore and use. You can see a glimpse of student progress from your whole class, individual data reports, areas students need to work on. This app can be used everyday in your classroom. It keeps kids fully engaged during center time so you aren't worrying about whether kids are on task or not. With all the data given, you are able to create or use small group lessons as well as individualized instruction.

  • Use Lexia as a center during guided reading.
  • Look at data to individualize instruction for one-on-one time.
  • On the website you can find worksheets for students to reinforce student skills.
  • Lessons with step by step instructions are provided based on student needs, use to create small groups or for individual practice.

Blending Traditional with Technology

Lexia is an app that can be used in so many different ways. I use Lexia everyday as a literacy center but you can also do so much more. Lexia has lessons and activities that go with skills students are working on in the app. This makes it super easy to pull a small group or somebody 1-1 to reinforce a skill with a physical lesson and then have them continue to practice in the app. Below are examples of lessons given from Lexia to work on skills students also work on in the app.

Lexia Core5 Reading. (2019, May 23). Retrieved from https://www.lexialearning.com/products/core5

Lexia Learning Systems. (2013, June 30). ‎Lexia Core5 Reading. Retrieved from https://apps.apple.com/app/id623853404

Lexia Reading Core5 - Apps on Google Play. (2018). Retrieved from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.lexialearning.core5&hl=en