Lexia Learning Systems

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Lexia Company History

• Founded in 1984 by a Team of Reading and
  Technology Specialists
• Funded by two Federal Grants from National
  Institute of Health (NICHD)
• Pioneered the Use of Technology to Deliver
  Explicit, Systematic Skills Based Instruction for
  Reading

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Goals of Lexia Reading V5 and the 3-Tier Model
Builds Mastery of Essential Reading Skills
SUPPORT - Support core reading programs for
on-level and advanced students through
accelerated independent practice
PREVENT Prevent reading failure by
strengthening reading skills for students who
need additional practice in essential reading
skills
REMEDIATE - Remediate reading disabilities by
providing extended practice to develop
foundational reading strategies
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Lexia Reading V5 Target Population
G R A D E
Use 20 30 Minutes
K 1 2 3 4 5



Tier
ER
Primary Reading
Strategies for Older Students
Early Reading
Primary Reading
Strategies
Early Reading
Primary Reading

Strategies
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Overall Program Design Content

• Systematic, Structured and Sequential
• Addresses the five Components of Reading as
  Defined by the National Reading Panel
• Correlated to Core Reading Curricula, Selected
  State Standards and DIBELS

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Overall Program Design Students

• Intrinsically Motivating with Immediate Feedback
  and Reinforcement
• A Focused Learning Environment to Maximize Time
  on Task
• Differentiated, Age-Appropriate, Independent
  Practice with Targeted Review
• Intelligent Branching with Carefully Scaffolded
  Activities based on Performance

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Intelligent Branching
Overall Program Design Students

• Collects Information on Each Student's
  Performance
• Identifies Strengths and Weaknesses Based on
  Student Performance
• Provides Feedback and Hints Along the Way
• Supplies Additional Practice when Necessary

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Overall Program Design Teachers/Administrators

• Web-enabled Access from Anywhere
• Reports Identify and Group Students for Targeted
  Instruction
• Ongoing Progress Monitoring Capabilities
• Management Access for Class, School, and District
  
• Home-to-school Connection

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Lexia Reading Scope and Sequence
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Scope and Sequence
SKILLS DEVELOPED Early Reading Ages 4-6 Primary Reading Ages 5-8 SOS Ages 9-Adult
PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS
Rhyming x
Identifying beginning and ending sounds x
Segmenting compound words and syllables x
Blending compound words and syllables x
Segmenting sounds x x
Blending sounds x x
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Scope and Sequence
SKILLS DEVELOPED Early Reading Ages 4-6 Primary Reading Ages 5-8 SOS Ages 9-Adult
PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS / PHONICS
Letter-sound correspondence for consonants, short vowels and consonant diagraphs x x x
Identifying beginning and ending sounds and letters x x x
Identifying medial sounds and letters, short and long vowels x x
Segmenting, blending and manipulating sounds with letters x x
Short vowel words x x
Silent -e words x x
Vowel r words x x
Vowel combination words x x
Two-syllable words x x
Three-syllable words x
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Scope and Sequence
SKILLS DEVELOPED Early Reading Ages 4-6 Primary Reading Ages 5-8 SOS Ages 9-Adult
FLUENCY
Phoneme intervals for blending and segmenting x
Timed discrimination of easily reversible letters x x
Timed medial vowel discrimination with letters x x
Automatic recognition of short vowel words x x
Timed identification of simple and complex words and syllables x x
Automatic recognition of words with vowel digraphs x
Automatic identification of irregular words x
Modeled paragraph reading x
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Scope and Sequence
SKILLS DEVELOPED Early Reading Ages 4-6 Primary Reading Ages 5-8 SOS Ages 9-Adult
VOCABULARY
Oral Vocabulary
Picture-word matching x
Reading Vocabulary
Picture-word matching x x
Categorical sorting x
Pre-primer through third grade sight words x x
Structural Analysis
Anglo-Saxon prefixes and suffixes x
Latin prefixes, roots and suffixes x
Greek combining forms x
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Scope and Sequence
SKILLS DEVELOPED Early Reading Ages 4-6 Primary Reading Ages 5-8 SOS Ages 9-Adult
COMPREHENSION
Comprehension of words x x x
Use of picture support to enhance comprehension of words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs x x x
Categorical and associative thinking x
Word construction from syllables and prefixes, stems and suffixes x x
Systematic cloze procedure comprehension of sentences, paragraphs and stories x x
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Introduction to Student User Interface
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Live Demonstration of a Complete Student Activity
Early Reading
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Live Demonstration of a Complete Student Activity
Primary Reading
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Demonstration of Student Activity Interface - SOS
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Live Demonstration of a Complete Student Activity
- SOS
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Student Activity Selection Screen
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Student Activity Selection Screen
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Sample Activities
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Phonological Awareness
Sample Activities Aligned with Scope and Sequence
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Early Reading Level 1 Word Snip Segmenting
Compound Words
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Early Reading Level 1 Word Snip Segmenting
Syllables
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Early Reading Level 1 Word Snip Segmenting
Phonemes
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Primary Reading Level 1 Sounds to Letters I -
Using Tokens
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Primary Reading Level 1 Sounds to Letters I
Using Letters
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Primary Reading Level 3 Sound Change Sound
Manipulation
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Primary Reading Level 5 Super Change Sound
Manipulation
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Primary Reading Level 4 Pirate Ship Medial
Vowel Discrimination
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SOS Level 1 Short Vowel Sounds Initial Vowel
Discrimination
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SOS Level 1 Sort b,d,p Auditory Sort
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SOS Level 2 Short Long Vowels Auditory Sort
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SOS Level 5 Anglo Saxon Dictated -ed endings
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Phonics and Word ID
Sample Activities Aligned with Scope and Sequence
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Early Reading Level 2 Consonant Tree Initial
Consonant Sound (bean)
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Primary Reading Level 1 Consonant Castle
Initial and Final Consonants
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Primary Reading Level 3 Silent -e Score
Constructing Dictated Words
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Primary Reading Level 4 Word Stairs Vowel-r
combinations
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Primary Reading Level 5 Elevator Construct
and Read 2-syllable words
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SOS Level 4 Syllable Types Sorting and
Constructing
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SOS Level4 2 Sounds of C G Sorting and
Constructing
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SOS Level 4 3 Syllable Words Constructing and
Reading Words
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Primary Reading Level 5 Add It Structural
Analysis
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SOS Level 5 Latin Prefixes and Suffixes
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Fluency
Sample Activities Aligned with Scope and Sequence
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Primary Reading Level 3 Fast Find Timed
Picture-Word Match
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Primary Reading Level 4 Pirate Ship Timed
Word ID
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Primary Reading Level 2 Sight Word Search
Timed Word ID
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Primary Reading Level 1 Sort b,d,p Timed
Visual Sort
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SOS Level 3 2 Syllable Words II Timed Word
Construction
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Vocabulary
Sample Activities Aligned with Scope and Sequence
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Early Reading Level 1 Rhyme Time Rhyming
Words (fin, bake, cake)
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Primary Reading Level 2 Sight Word Search II
Identifying Words (are)
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Primary Reading Level 2 Sight Word Search II
Word Construction (are)
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Primary Reading Level 2 Sight Word Search II
Dictated Sentence Completion (are)
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Primary Reading Level 3 Fast Find
Picture-Word Matching
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Primary Reading Level 4 Group It -
Categorization
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SOS Level 5 Root Meanings Directional
Prefixes and their Meanings
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SOS Level 5 Root Meanings Directional
Prefixes and their Meanings
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SOS Level 5 Greek Meanings of Combining Forms
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Comprehension
Sample Activities Aligned with Scope and Sequence
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Early Reading Level 2 Consonant Tree
Picture-Word Meaning
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Primary Reading Level 2 Picture Word Match
Pictures and Phrases
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Primary Reading Level 2 Picture Word Match
Pictures and Phrases
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Primary Reading Level 2 Picture Word Match
Pictures and Phrases
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Primary Reading Level 4 Group It Categories
and Relationships
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Primary Reading Level 3 Sight Word Search III
Dictated Sentence Completion
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Primary Reading Level 4 Word Stairs Sentence
Completion
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Primary Reading Level 4 Word Hunt Paragraph
Completion and Reading
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Primary Reading Level 4 Word Hunt Paragraph
Completion and Reading
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Primary Reading Level 5 Elevator Stories
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SOS Level 2 Sentences and Paragraphs Sentence
Completion
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SOS Level 2 2 Syllable Words Sentence
Completion
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SOS Level 5 Special Accents Sentence
Completion
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SOS Level 3 Paragraphs I Paragraph Completion
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SOS Level 4Paragraphs II Paragraph Completion
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Lexia Learning Systems Research
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Research Requirements
Efficacy and Outcomes Research

• Random Assignment by Class to Treatment and
  Control Groups
• Representative Samples of Students
• Pre- and Post-testing using Standardized Measures
  
• (Gates MacGinitie, Woodcock-Johnson III,
  GRADE)
• Research Consultants Affiliated with Established
  Research Institutions
• Sufficient Implementation
• Peer-Reviewed Publications

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Kindergarten Study
Efficacy and Outcomes Research

• Lexia Early Reading
• 3 Treatment, 3 Control Classes
• Matched Classes same teacher,
• classroom, and curriculum

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Kindergarten Results
Efficacy and Outcomes Research

• Low performers

• All children

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Peer-Reviewed Publication
Efficacy and Outcomes Research
Kindergarten Findings published in Reading
Psychology, 2008, Vol. 29 (3) The Efficacy of
Computer Assisted Instruction for Advancing
Literacy Skills in Kindergarten Children
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First Grade Study
Efficacy and Outcomes Research

• 5 Treatment, 5 Control Classes
• 83 Students in Treatment Group, 84 Students in
  Control Group
• Sub analysis Title I (15 students in treatment
  group, 15 students in control group)

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First Grade Results
Efficacy and Outcomes Research

• Title I Students

• Lexia Students

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Peer-Reviewed Publication
Efficacy and Outcomes Research
Title 1 findings published in the Journal of
Research in Reading v29 (2), May 2006 The
efficacy of computer-based supplementary phonics
programs for advancing reading skills in at-risk
elementary students
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Second Grade Study
Efficacy and Outcomes Research

• 7 Treatment, 4 Control Classes
• Students (41 students in each group) Matched
  Pretest Scores

Decoding Subtest
Findings published in International Dyslexia
Associations Perspectives on Language and
Literacy Summer 2007 issue
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Third Grade Study
Efficacy and Outcomes Research

• 13 Treatment, 5 Control Classes
• Lower Performers
• 46 Students in Treatment Group, 65 Students in
  Control Group

Reading Comprehension Subtest
Findings published in International Dyslexia
Associations Perspectives on Language and
Literacy Summer 2007 issue
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Lexia Middle School Study
Efficacy and Outcomes Research

• Remedial Reading Classes
• 47 Subjects (31 SPED students)
• Identical Instruction
• Treatment Students Averaged 50 Sessions using
  Lexia SOS
• Woodcock Johnson III Assessment Tool

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Middle School Results
Efficacy and Outcomes Research
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Teacher Survey Results
Efficacy and Outcomes Research
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Research Summary
Efficacy and Outcomes Research

• Lexia Contributed to Reading Gains in Grades
  PreK - 3 and Middle School
• Gains Most Evident for Low Performers
• Results are Consistent with other Published Data
• Teachers Support the Use of the Programs

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Ongoing Research
Efficacy and Outcomes Research

• Data Analyses in Progress for Pre-K,
  Kindergarten and Sixth Grade Data Collected
  During the 2006-2007 School Year
• Significant Findings and Manuscripts in
  Preparation
• Large-Scale Study Underway in Ennis, TX
• K (N425)
• 1st (N252)
• 2nd (N257)
• Subgroups of Bilingual Students

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Professional Development
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Professional Development for Lexia Representatives
Professional Development

• Annual Summer Conference
• Ongoing Training of Representatives
• Online Seminars
• Dedicated Website of Resources
• Representative Advisory Board
• Live Phone Support

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Professional Development for Users
Professional Development

• On-site Half-day Hands-on Training
• Teacher Materials program guide, quick reference
  cards, best practices document, reports sampler,
  3-tier model, scope and sequence, basal
  correlations, welcome pack, classroom materials
  (puppets, stickers, posters, charts,
  certificates), correspondence templates to
  communicate with parents
• MyLexia Site for Resources
• Customer Newsletter
• Regional User Groups (US and UK)
• Live Phone Support

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Administration Module Demonstration
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Student Detailed Skills Report - Overview
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Student Detailed Skills Report Short Vowel
Bridge
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Questions?