Hello families! I am so excited to tell you that Lexia online is available to download and begin using at home. Lexia is a phonics based program that is tailored to your child's specific phonics needs. Each student uses the program in school for about 10-15 minutes daily as part of our literacy centers. If you can use it at home as well for about 15 minutes 3-4 times per week, it will allow your child to advance to higher levels of the program or give me information on areas we need to work on in class. The program reacts and changes to the way your child answers. For example, if they answer rhyming questions incorrectly, it will keep giving rhyming questions. However, if a student answers the rhyming questions correctly, it will advance them tot he next skill, which may be consonant sounds.
The students can see their progress as they go in the form of a kid friendly graph system which appears each time they click the stop icon. It is important to remember to resist the urge to help your child. I know this is contradictory and difficult, but if you give your child too many hints or answers, the program will assume that they understand the skill and advance them, which will lead to difficulty later.
So, how do you download Lexia? It should be easy, I think. Click on the Lexia link under Educational Links right on this site. Then scroll down a bit and click on the "Lexia Downloads" button. It should walk you through it from there. The student login name is your child's first name underscore last name and the password is "read". Your child will recognize the login screen and probably be able to login on their own. Please let me know if you have any problems and I will help you as much as I am able.
Have a great night!
Mrs. McAuliffe
