Lexia Core5 Reading Helps Timrod Tailor Activities To Student Needs Lexia Core5 Reading is an adaptive technology-based literacy program that provides personalized curriculum for our Timrod students. This program assesses and remediates skills in six areas of reading: phonological awareness, phonics, structural analysis, automaticity/fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The game-based activities and assessments are engaging for students and encourage them to think deeply as they work through lessons. By using the program 20 minutes a day, four days a week, students receive independent practice of these various skills to help them make the shift from learning to read to reading to learn. Each activity changes or adapts based on a student’s performance. One of the ways we are implementing Lexia at Timrod is through our beforeschool program Monday through Thursday. It is during this time that a certified teacher monitors students as they work to meet their goals for Lexia. This additional time gives students an opportunity to meet their minutes as they complete lessons. Our teachers are also findrequired ing success using Lexia in the classroom. Principal Michelle McBride stated, “The students are actively engaged with Lexia Core5 during blended learning in ELA. Students are closing academic skill gaps with the program. Our teachers have also embraced the program and are using it for small group instruction.” Our students are assessed individually and the program determines where students are struggling and even provides guidance and immediate feedback to help students master the skills. Once mastery is obtained, students move to offline activities such as teacher-led Lexia Lessons that provide scripts for teachers to instruct in specific skill areas. In addition, teachers have access to Lexia teaching strategies, collaborative activities, and paper-and-pencil activities all designed around students’ personalized learning paths. For struggling students, they receive scaffolded support to provide guidance for the skills they need help with. Teachers have access to detailed reports that allow them to track student progress throughout the year and connect student data to classroom instruction and student practice.
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