Share your opinion about Lexia

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lexia is better than any reading program available in FCPS.

It is better at teaching actual reading skills than any teacher

You aren't using it with a kid having a hard time.

My AAP kid HATES it. My not so great at school third grader HATES it. Both absolutely love to read on their own. As a Kindergarten teacher, it has some redeeming points, but I am not amazed by it.

1. It doesn't actually teach. At a certain point, the kids memorize the combinations of pictures/words that it is training them to recognize while not necessarily learning the underlying skill.

2. The way they remediate a kid missing a skill is a joke. Many kids get frustrated with the constant directions or slow reading when they know the answer already.

3. The back up lessons the teachers are supposed to use are complete crap and

4. I am not a fan of the way they teach sight words. So many kids get stuck with the sight words and the order of the heart/sight words they choose to use is ridiculous and doesn't help kids start phonics readers.

5. Leveled gaming has been know to lead to rising dopamine levels and crashing when the stimulus is removed and with many many kids having behavior issues, regulating the brain after leaving a game can take a while.

Overall, It has definite issues, can be laggy and frustrating particularly for ELL and kids who need help.

I'm a parent and a teacher and agree with all that's stated above. My son finds Lexia slow and clunky. I wish it were much more adaptive, the programdoesnt really seem to meet students where they are at but rather push for more time. Less screentime is for the best, i think, and requiring 60 plus minutes a week to progress is wat too much screentime. I'm all for the Science of Reading and much prefer doing eord and sentence dictation, morphology lessons, and a grammar workbook with my son....in addition to lots of reading of course.

Just stop. Lexia (when implemented correctly) is an incredible resource. I’m a Gifted Education teacher with over 15 years of experience. Two children—13 and 7. 15 minutes online per day followed with targeted instruction using the data provided is incredibly useful for ALL students.

Just stop! Don’t trash the best thing that FCPS has purchased in a long while.

Kids love it and constantly discuss their "levels," but could you please explain the information provided and the targeted instruction? Do you actually spent a certain amount of time with each kid on reading that complements the Lexia?

All grades have word study lessons done in a whole group and then teachers can follow up that with targeted instruction in small group. Lexia is a review and practice. But there are lessons in Lexia too and you can see who “needs instruction” and should deliver those lessons to students. That’s the part I don’t like as a teacher- the expectation to do those lesson and it looks like Lexia is driving instruction in FCPS. But that’s how they do things, spend a ton of money on a product and work to prove it’s worth.

[Anonymous]

My 6th grader hasn't done any word study all year.

[Anonymous]

My kid finds it frustrating because the interface is so slow. She gets impatient waiting for the instructions and then gets things wrong because she didn't listen to the instructions and then has to do remediation on things she knows, further frustrating her.

By contrast, Reflex is super snappy and she loves it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lexia is better than any reading program available in FCPS.

It is better at teaching actual reading skills than any teacher

You aren't using it with a kid having a hard time.

My AAP kid HATES it. My not so great at school third grader HATES it. Both absolutely love to read on their own. As a Kindergarten teacher, it has some redeeming points, but I am not amazed by it.

1. It doesn't actually teach. At a certain point, the kids memorize the combinations of pictures/words that it is training them to recognize while not necessarily learning the underlying skill.

2. The way they remediate a kid missing a skill is a joke. Many kids get frustrated with the constant directions or slow reading when they know the answer already.

3. The back up lessons the teachers are supposed to use are complete crap and

4. I am not a fan of the way they teach sight words. So many kids get stuck with the sight words and the order of the heart/sight words they choose to use is ridiculous and doesn't help kids start phonics readers.

5. Leveled gaming has been know to lead to rising dopamine levels and crashing when the stimulus is removed and with many many kids having behavior issues, regulating the brain after leaving a game can take a while.

Overall, It has definite issues, can be laggy and frustrating particularly for ELL and kids who need help.

+1 My AAP kid hates it too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lexia is better than any reading program available in FCPS.

It is better at teaching actual reading skills than any teacher

You aren't using it with a kid having a hard time.

My AAP kid HATES it. My not so great at school third grader HATES it. Both absolutely love to read on their own. As a Kindergarten teacher, it has some redeeming points, but I am not amazed by it.

1. It doesn't actually teach. At a certain point, the kids memorize the combinations of pictures/words that it is training them to recognize while not necessarily learning the underlying skill.

2. The way they remediate a kid missing a skill is a joke. Many kids get frustrated with the constant directions or slow reading when they know the answer already.

3. The back up lessons the teachers are supposed to use are complete crap and

4. I am not a fan of the way they teach sight words. So many kids get stuck with the sight words and the order of the heart/sight words they choose to use is ridiculous and doesn't help kids start phonics readers.

5. Leveled gaming has been know to lead to rising dopamine levels and crashing when the stimulus is removed and with many many kids having behavior issues, regulating the brain after leaving a game can take a while.

Overall, It has definite issues, can be laggy and frustrating particularly for ELL and kids who need help.

I'm a parent and a teacher and agree with all that's stated above. My son finds Lexia slow and clunky. I wish it were much more adaptive, the programdoesnt really seem to meet students where they are at but rather push for more time. Less screentime is for the best, i think, and requiring 60 plus minutes a week to progress is wat too much screentime. I'm all for the Science of Reading and much prefer doing eord and sentence dictation, morphology lessons, and a grammar workbook with my son....in addition to lots of reading of course.

Just stop. Lexia (when implemented correctly) is an incredible resource. I’m a Gifted Education teacher with over 15 years of experience. Two children—13 and 7. 15 minutes online per day followed with targeted instruction using the data provided is incredibly useful for ALL students.

Just stop! Don’t trash the best thing that FCPS has purchased in a long while.

Are you really a teacher. I thought teachers teach about free speech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lexia is better than any reading program available in FCPS.

It is better at teaching actual reading skills than any teacher

You aren't using it with a kid having a hard time.

My AAP kid HATES it. My not so great at school third grader HATES it. Both absolutely love to read on their own. As a Kindergarten teacher, it has some redeeming points, but I am not amazed by it.

1. It doesn't actually teach. At a certain point, the kids memorize the combinations of pictures/words that it is training them to recognize while not necessarily learning the underlying skill.

2. The way they remediate a kid missing a skill is a joke. Many kids get frustrated with the constant directions or slow reading when they know the answer already.

3. The back up lessons the teachers are supposed to use are complete crap and

4. I am not a fan of the way they teach sight words. So many kids get stuck with the sight words and the order of the heart/sight words they choose to use is ridiculous and doesn't help kids start phonics readers.

5. Leveled gaming has been know to lead to rising dopamine levels and crashing when the stimulus is removed and with many many kids having behavior issues, regulating the brain after leaving a game can take a while.

Overall, It has definite issues, can be laggy and frustrating particularly for ELL and kids who need help.

I'm a parent and a teacher and agree with all that's stated above. My son finds Lexia slow and clunky. I wish it were much more adaptive, the programdoesnt really seem to meet students where they are at but rather push for more time. Less screentime is for the best, i think, and requiring 60 plus minutes a week to progress is wat too much screentime. I'm all for the Science of Reading and much prefer doing eord and sentence dictation, morphology lessons, and a grammar workbook with my son....in addition to lots of reading of course.

Just stop. Lexia (when implemented correctly) is an incredible resource. I’m a Gifted Education teacher with over 15 years of experience. Two children—13 and 7. 15 minutes online per day followed with targeted instruction using the data provided is incredibly useful for ALL students.

Just stop! Don’t trash the best thing that FCPS has purchased in a long while.

Are you really a teacher. I thought teachers teach about free speech.

My guess is it’s someone from Gatehouse or a Lexia rep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do wonder how much of the behavior problems in schools have to do with screen time from things like Lexia, st math, kahoot, etc… Add in video games and tablets at home and I could see a class of 3-5th graders being very difficult to manage.

This! DS told me several of his friends wanted to smash their laptops when doing ST math and Lexia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem is they use it as a replacement for teaching. The students at our elementary do not receive grammar lessons or spelling lessons. In fact, this year they are not receiving vocabulary lessons. Lexia is not monitored by teachers. We just use it to keep everyone busy.

This is the down side. It is not good for students. Sometimes, this trend of teaching make me imagine teachers being completed replaced by computers one day.

[Anonymous]

My daughter’s second grade teacher told me she likes the new way of teaching reading, including lexia.

I don’t love lexia as a parent - I don’t really want my kids to be learning reading from a computer, but I don’t care enough to complain about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter’s second grade teacher told me she likes the new way of teaching reading, including lexia.

I don’t love lexia as a parent - I don’t really want my kids to be learning reading from a computer, but I don’t care enough to complain about it.

My 5th grade AAP student hasn’t mentioned it though I recall in 3rd grade he hated ST math. I’ll have to try to remember to ask him if he still those. He hasn’t mentioned them this year.

[Anonymous]

I actually like it for my 1st grader. I can see that his reading level has increased and the program seems to hold his interest.

I think they do a lot of Lexia at school so I don’t make him do it at home. His teacher does send home a packet of worksheets every time they finish a level so we try to gradually work on those. They’re also good for practicing handwriting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid finds it frustrating because the interface is so slow. She gets impatient waiting for the instructions and then gets things wrong because she didn't listen to the instructions and then has to do remediation on things she knows, further frustrating her.

By contrast, Reflex is super snappy and she loves it.

Well it does seem like she’s got some area of growth in self- control.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The problem is they use it as a replacement for teaching. The students at our elementary do not receive grammar lessons or spelling lessons. In fact, this year they are not receiving vocabulary lessons. Lexia is not monitored by teachers. We just use it to keep everyone busy.

They should be. Every ES K-6 has word study built into the master schedule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The problem is they use it as a replacement for teaching. The students at our elementary do not receive grammar lessons or spelling lessons. In fact, this year they are not receiving vocabulary lessons. Lexia is not monitored by teachers. We just use it to keep everyone busy.

They should be. Every ES K-6 has word study built into the master schedule.

+1, maybe they just don’t know what it’s called. It’s during the Lang Arts block.

[Anonymous]

Both of my kids "finished" Lexia during the pandemic. I wasn't worried about the screen time. All of their friends had as much or more screen time from video games and still do. It's too bad that the only middle school segment is just remedial.