Share your opinion about Lexia

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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.

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

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

It's a Lexia rep. Anyone in FCPS wouldn't say "Gifted Education teacher". And the middle schoolers aren't doing Lexia, so what is her 13 year old doing on it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

It's a Lexia rep. Anyone in FCPS wouldn't say "Gifted Education teacher". And the middle schoolers aren't doing Lexia, so what is her 13 year old doing on it?

Good call. And what teacher writes, “Just stop” twice?! Lol. Most teachers I know can’t stand Lexia. My kid’s own teacher barely uses it.

[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.

Would they really be doing grammar and spelling anyway? I'm the poster with K child on level 13 and relative to what my older child got in K (all sight words, three-cueing, basically no grammar or spelling), I'll take Lexia because it's attempting to teach phonics and has a scope and sequence.

We don't do Lexia at home, but we are doing All About Reading, so that might have contributed to the progress. Also passing a level doesn't translate into always getting those concepts right outside of Lexia. I think it's allowing my child to pass too fast somehow, which seems like a flaw, but at the same time some of the lessons are getting into their head because my child tells me what they learned.

They do actually talk about letter sounds in class, which also seems like an improvement from the past. I do think there's way more instruction they could do but maybe I've lowered my standards, but I think time on Lexia is better than time on guessing/leveled readers, so I'm relatively happier with the school than I was with my other child.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kids like it, but I have mixed feelings. I appreciate that it is trying to teach the rules of grammar/spelling, but in the English language there aren't always rules! I really wish spelling lists and tests would make a come back.

That is the thing.... most words (about 75%) in the English Language DO follow rules! The rest can usually be explained with word origin and morphology! That is what the shift to the science of reading has been. It is absolutely thrilling to finally see everything "click" for so many of the kids!

PP here. I hear you, and I love me some morphology! But Lexia isn't really helping a 2nd grader sound out "Wednesday," you know what I mean? Spelling lists should still have a place in FCPS.

[Anonymous]

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

My 6th grader has. She has had spelling assessments and vocab assessments.

[Anonymous]

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

My 6th grader has. She has had spelling assessments and vocab assessments.

Teacher here. Home sick. All of the pacing guides have word study. If the teacher is not doing them, then you should discuss with principal and teacher.

[Anonymous]

I don't mind Lexia as supplemental work to be done at home, but there's been a huge emphasis on it at my child's school, along with ST Math. It feels like the computer programs are replacing instruction, rather than supplementing. My child was placed in the wrong Lexia level, and I found out later it was due to faulty school-provided headphones. I requested my child be re-tested, but the teacher refused, claiming the program was flexible and my child would catch up. Instead, it took my child several months of working through below-grade material to reach the appropriate level. I see the benefit of the program, but I can also see the program becoming a crutch to hide a poor teaching environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't mind Lexia as supplemental work to be done at home, but there's been a huge emphasis on it at my child's school, along with ST Math. It feels like the computer programs are replacing instruction, rather than supplementing. My child was placed in the wrong Lexia level, and I found out later it was due to faulty school-provided headphones. I requested my child be re-tested, but the teacher refused, claiming the program was flexible and my child would catch up. Instead, it took my child several months of working through below-grade material to reach the appropriate level. I see the benefit of the program, but I can also see the program becoming a crutch to hide a poor teaching environment.

A teacher can change placement. I’ve done it a few times.

[Anonymous]

I wish we had you as a teacher!

I suspect our teacher could've changed placement but just didn't want to bother, or maybe didn't know how?

My child's teacher has been using Lexia in class as the lesson itself, as my child often completes 30-40 minutes of it in class. My child started the school year at Level 8 and is now in Level 19. I don't support using it at home because it's too much screen time.

In the hands of a good teacher, it's a great tool. In the hands of a poor teacher, it's a way to get the class to be quiet and work on something educational for long stretches of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

How did your kids finish Lexia two years ago when FCPS just bought it this year?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

How did your kids finish Lexia two years ago when FCPS just bought it this year?

DP. My child was offered it during the pandemic/summer 2020 for remediation. There may have been some schools using it for everyone?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

How did your kids finish Lexia two years ago when FCPS just bought it this year?

DP. My child was offered it during the pandemic/summer 2020 for remediation. There may have been some schools using it for everyone?

I forgot, the whole class used it last school year too so they couldn't have just bought it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

How did your kids finish Lexia two years ago when FCPS just bought it this year?

They got it for free for a while, then continued paying for some apparently. See here: https://specialeducationaction.com/from-just-words-to-lexia-fcps-continued-its-one-size-fits-all-approach-to-addressing-dyslexia/

[Anonymous]

People confuse Lexia with Imagine Literacy, which is what we had during the virtual year and last year. Lexia is brand new to the district this year (other than maybe a pilot program in a few schools).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People confuse Lexia with Imagine Literacy, which is what we had during the virtual year and last year. Lexia is brand new to the district this year (other than maybe a pilot program in a few schools).

Then our school must have been one of the pilots. They definitely had it last year for the whole class. They also had Imagine Literacy.