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Reading
Reading Instruction for Students with Disabilities
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Commercial
Packages
Lexia Reading Software
Name
of Program: Lexia Reading Software
- Contact
Information:
Lexia Learning Systems, Inc.
11A Lewis Street
PO Box 466
Lincoln, MA 01773
Phone: (800) READ-211 (800-732-3211).
Fax: (781) 259-1349
E-mail: info@lexialearning.com
Web sites: www.lexialearning.com
www.rlac.com/lexia.htm
- Student
Population Information
Age/grade levels of students: There are two programs, Phonics
Based Reading (designed for students kindergarten through third
grade) and Strategies for Older Students (designed for students
from the fourth grade to adult).
Applicability to Students with Disabilities:
Dyslexic
students, and learning disabled populations
Can be used with general education or special education populations
- Setting
Classroom program or School-wide program: Mostly used per
classroom, but it can be purchased to support an unlimited number
of users.
- Synopsis
of Program
- Phonics
Based Reading (K-3)
This program begins by teaching the student the sounds of
vowels and single-syllable words; advancing to more difficult
concepts and words as the student masters easier concepts.
Students begin to build a working sight word vocabulary (using
over 2,000 words). The program features an automatic branching
function with an additional 'loop-back' function that allows
the computer to repeat exercises if students fail to demonstrate
mastery of a concept on a latter tria
- Reading
Strategies for Older Students (4th-adult)
Begins similar to the Phonics Based Reading program. This
program initially focuses on vowel sounds and single syllable
words, but attempts to quickly advance the student into more
challenging material. It also features the automatic branching
function but not the looping function. The Reading Strategies
for Older Students is also paced a little faster than the
Phonic Based Reading program; and covers over 3,000 words
including three syllable words.
- Other
Features
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The program keeps track of student performance, individually
and compared to the rest of the class. Teachers and students
can use these reports to track performance.
- Claims
to be effective for multiple settings, and for multiple needs
(ESL, limited reading skills, etc.)
- Features
an automatic branching function that makes the program progressively
more difficult as the student masters new skills. Teachers
can disable the branching function if it is determined that
the student needs additional time on a particular skill.
- There
are "Quick Reading Tests" that are available that
assess the students strengths and weaknesses.
- Considerations
- Extensive
references…comes highly recommended…includes links
to references
- Widely-used
in school districts
- Able
to customize instruction…the program moves at the child's
pace and the teacher is able to move the child back or forward
according to the student's progress and the classroom goals.
- Can
be easily integrated into the curriculum.
- Does
not require that children be pulled out of class.
- Requires
that classrooms or resource persons have a computer.
- Would
be expensive to integrate across a system?
- Suggestions/Additional
Information/Prerequisite Materials and/or Facilities
- Be
aware that this is not intended to replace direct instruction.
The Lexia software is designed to be a supplementary tool.
- Schools
need to have computers, staff knowledgeable in computers,
or the technological capabilities necessary to support the
network version?
- Miscellaneous
- Multi-award
winning program:
Award of Excellence: Children's Software Review
District's Choice Award: Curriculum Administrator Magazine
Honored as one of the top 100 products of the year
Two Gold Medal Awards: Kid's Domain (educational review
web-site)
- Received
initial fund through grants from the National Institute of
Child Health and Development (NICHD)
- Met
the standards set in the National Research Council report,
"Preventing Reading Difficulties in Children"
- Their
web site, www.lexialearning.com,
provides extensive references for their product. This includes
links to the sites that reviewed their products and presented
them with awards and a listing of other large school systems
that have purchased the program.
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