Achieve Reading Gains More Quickly
Make a Literacy Breakthrough With Acceleration, Not Remediation
A Nation of Struggling Readers
- 57% of fourth grade students read belowgrade level
- 69% of eighth grade students read below grade level
- Larger percentages of Black, Latino, Emergent Bilingual, and students with disabilities read below grade level 1
Contrasting Reading Strategies Yield Different Outcomes
To bring students up to grade-level reading expectations, educators can remediate them or accelerate their progress by meeting them at their current levels. Both methods aim to help students reach grade-level reading proficiency but differ in focus, pacing, and overall goal.
Reading Acceleration
Reading Remediation
Goal
Bring students up to or above grade level quickly
Make incremental progress in foundational skills
Instructional Focus
Provide interesting, challenging texts that stretch students' abilities
Teach basic skills, often using simpler texts and repetitive exercises
Teaching Approach
Integrate skills within the context of reading and writing activities
Focus on isolated skill practice and repetition
Pacing
Faster paced to quickly bring students up to grade level
Slower paced to ensure mastery of foundational skills
Content
Grade-level or slightly above-grade-level materials that are engaging and challenging
Below-grade-level materials focused on specific skill deficits
Assessment
Ongoing assessments help teachers adjust instruction and progress quickly
Frequent assessments identify specific skill gaps and monitor progress
Examples of Activities
Reading and discussing complex texts, writing projects, and group discussions
Phonics drills, vocabulary exercises, and comprehension questions about simpler texts
Lexia® takes an accelerated approach, helping students work independently to develop their critical reading skills through individualized, motivating learning paths.
When students fall behind, providing access to grade-level work with appropriate support (learning acceleration) is the best way to help them catch up—delaying access to grade-level work (remediation) practically guarantees they will fall even farther behind.” 2
Lexia's Personalized Learning Supports Literacy Acceleration
- Individual, adaptive learning paths allow students to quickly accelerate beyond grade-level reading.
- Students demonstrating proficiency in a skill area can enhance to the next level.
- Scaffolding and explicit instruction address skill gaps, allowing students to move to more challenging texts.
- Embedded assessments collect real-time performance data, facilitating targeted acceleration.
- A blended learning model incorporates both digital practice and face-to-face instruction, helping students get ahead faster.
- Diverse learner support helps Emergent Bilinguals and students with disabilities who may be several grade levels behind.
Lexia® Core5® Reading and Lexia® PowerUp Literacy® Accelerate Learning for Elementary and Adolescent Learners
Core5 accelerates literacy gains for students in grades pre-K–5
- 82% probability of no learning loss for students who met usage targets for 12 weeks 3
- 36% improvement for Hispanic students working on literacy skills in or above grade level after one year 4
- 46% improvement for Black students working on skills in or above grade level 5
- 4X Faster: Emergent Bilinguals progressed significantly faster than non-Core5 users 6
PowerUp accelerates the growth of fundamental literacy skills for students in grades 6–12
When used together, the complete Lexia portfolio accelerates literacy gains in your classroom. Watch our teacher testimonial, “With Core5, Every Student is Getting Exactly What They Need,” to learn more about the impact Lexia's literacy acceleration has on classrooms.
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