Lexia Core5 Reading vs WordFlight Student

Use of this app requires an active account for Lexia® Core5® Reading. If you do not have a username and password, please contact your school for more information. About Lexia Core5 Reading: Personalized. Powerful. Proven. Built on the science of reading, Lexia Core5 Reading accelerates the development of literacy skills for students of all abilities in grades preK–5, helping them make that critical shift from learning to read to reading to learn. Based on performance on a research-validated, adaptive auto-placement, students begin Core5 at the level that's just right for them. From there, Core5 seamlessly adapts with student performance, targets skill gaps as they emerge, and equips educators with the data and instructional resources they need to personalize instruction for every student. The adaptive blended learning structure embedded in Core5 provides an explicit, systematic, personalized approach to reading instruction. The program is organized around six critical areas of reading: • Phonological Awareness • Phonics, Structural Analysis • Automaticity/Fluency • Vocabulary • Comprehension Based on student performance, Lexia's Embedded Assessment technology provides teachers and administrators real-time progress monitoring data—without stopping classroom instruction to give a test—saving up to a month of instructional time by • identifying student risk levels • predicting future performance • prescribing instructional intensity • providing real-time data and action plans Within the first month of use, teachers will know each student's probability of meeting end-of-year, grade-level benchmark, and will receive the recommended resources and intensity of instruction necessary to improve students’ learning trajectory. In just minutes, administrators can see a full picture of academic progress across a district, school, grade, and class, down to the individual student, through easy-to-interpret, actionable reports. About Lexia: Lexia®, a Cambium Learning Group company, is the Structured Literacy expert. For nearly 40 years, the company has focused solely on literacy, and today provides science-of-reading-based solutions for both students and educators. With robust offerings for differentiated instruction, personalized learning, assessment, and professional learning, Lexia helps more learners read, write, and speak with confidence.

WordFlight™ is the premier reading app that allows for anytime, anywhere access to the innovative research- and evidence-based blended assessment and intervention program. Teachers can use the app to diagnose struggling readers and help them develop automatic word recognition — the critical bridge between phonics and fluency. WordFlight™ has 5 components: -A quick online screener to identify whether students have deficits in automatic word recognition skills. -An online diagnostic that identifies specific gaps in decoding knowledge & measures automaticity of word recognition. -Online intervention that personalizes instruction based on the principles of the Varied Practice Model. -Curriculum guides for teachers so they can extend, reinforce and deepen the learning provided through the online instruction. -Reports that enable teachers and administrators to monitor student performance Top WordFlight™ features Include: - Quickly identifies students struggling with basic reading skills who may benefit from deeper diagnosis or intervention - Provides specific information about students’ deficits in basic reading skills, including decoding and word recognition through detailed, web-based reporting tools and email alerts. - Unique tools and content designed for elementary and secondary settings. - Effective with students at risk for language and literacy development, English Language Learners, special needs students, and students who learn differently. - Extends vocabulary development, fluency, comprehension, and writing with an extensive suite of resources, curriculum guides, and daily lesson plans. WordFlight™ meets the needs of those students who have struggled to make adequate progress using traditional tools. Based on years of research and developed in close collaboration with school districts, WordFlight™ is an online, blended reading intervention program that is proven to work. This easy-to-use program delivers differentiated instruction, tailored to students’ individual needs, in the context of a digital learning environment. Students who benefit from WordFlight exhibit one or more of the following reading challenges: - Are one or more years behind in reading - Struggle with comprehension and fluency - Do not decode well—lack automaticity - Struggles to identify/distinguish vowels - Does not understand how syllables work or have difficulty breaking words into syllables - Cannot apply the rules of phonics to new words or to connected text *** This app requires a WordFlight™ account *** What are educators saying about WordFlight™? “I saw remarkable growth in my students’ ability to tackle longer, multisyllabic words. This translated to better fluency and confidence for my resource language arts students. When students took the WordFlight™ seriously and committed their time and attention, they made on average 1.8 years of growth as measured on the Qualitative Reading Inventory.” Christina Sorenson, Leander, TX “Students with severe reading difficulties were reading. The most wonderful blessings were watching them succeed for the first time and feel like true readers.” Marsha Allen, Santa Fe, NM “(WordFlight™) has helped with confidence, oral reading, fluency and decoding skills. My goal is that they feel more empowered to become lifelong readers, even if aspects of it are hard.” Jill Powell, Sioux Falls, SD CONTACT Contact customerservice@wordflight.com for help or suggestions, or visit https://www.wordflight.com/contact/ Privacy Policy: https://www.wordflight.com/privacy-policy/