Beginning Readers - Reading Fluency

Lexia Core5 Reading 

Program description

Lexia Core5 Reading is a technology-based program that provides practice in basic reading skills through individualized supplemental instruction. The program uses tiered instruction intended for 20 to 30 sessions, two to five times per week. Students work independently and the software records student responses to differentiate instruction, provide additional practice where needed and to assist educators with planning personalized offline instruction. 

Student population

Lexia Core5 Reading has been examined in Kindergarten through 5th  grade in urban settings. Participants included Black, White, and Hispanic readers across ability levels from primarily low socio-economic (Title 1) schools.

Current evidence

Lexia Core5 Reading has been rated as Promising by Evidence for ESSA (https://www.evidenceforessa.org/programs/reading/lexiar-core5r-reading) for students in grades K-5th grades. The What Works Clearinghouse rated Lexia Reading as having potentially positive effects for alphabetics and comprehension and no discernable effects for general reading ability, and reading fluency (https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/Docs/InterventionReports/wwc_lexia_063009.pdf) in grades K-1st.

For more information:

https://www.lexialearning.com/core5 

Macaruso, P., Hook, P. E., & McCabe, R. (2006). The efficacy of computer‐based supplementary phonics programs for advancing reading skills in at‐risk elementary students. Journal of Research in Reading, 29(2), 162-172.

Schechter, R., Macaruso, P., Kazakoff, E.R., & Brooke, E. (2015). Exploration of a blended learning approach to reading instruction for low SES students in early elementary grades. Computers in the Schools, 32, 183–200.

Macaruso, P., Wilkes, S., & Prescott, J. E. (2018). An investigation of blended learning to support reading instruction in elementary school. Concord, MA: Lexia Learning.

https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/Docs/InterventionReports/wwc_lexia_063009.pdf