Lexia Debuts New PowerUp Literacy Program, Enhancing Core English Language Arts Instruction for Non-Proficient Readers in Gra...
January 17 2018 - 9:00AM
The National Center for Education Statistics has found that
approximately two-thirds of eighth-grade students
in the United States cannot read proficiently; that percentage has
held relatively steady for 25 years. To help schools and districts
close the achievement gap for non-proficient readers in grades six
and above,
Lexia Learning, a
Rosetta Stone
Inc. (NYSE: RST) Company, has released
Lexia
PowerUp Literacy™. The new program is
designed to simultaneously accelerate the development of both
fundamental literacy skills and higher-order thinking skills
through adaptive learning paths.
Developed specifically for adolescent students, PowerUp
identifies skill gaps and provides personalized and systematic
instruction in word study, grammar and comprehension. By engaging
students with a range of relevant, high-interest authentic texts;
instructional videos; and game-based motivational elements, PowerUp
is intended to help students take ownership of their learning,
acknowledging their growing autonomy and building their
confidence.
“Schools and districts need to prepare all middle and high
school students, including non-proficient readers, for college and
careers, so closing the literacy achievement gap in grades 6-12 is
often a matter of special concern. That’s
especially true when teachers don’t feel they have the training or
tools to support non-proficient readers,” said Lexia President Nick
Gaehde. “PowerUp equips teachers with the knowledge, data and
instructional resources they need to support and motivate those
readers.”
PowerUp is the newest addition to Lexia’s pre-K–12 portfolio of
literacy solutions. The company’s award-winning Lexia Reading
Core5® program is research-proven to accelerate the development of
fundamental literacy skills for students of all abilities in grades
pre-K–5. Lexia RAPID Assessment™ is a computer-adaptive universal
screener for K-12 students that assesses the skills most predictive
of end-of-year reading success. Lexia has designed each of these
products to address the specific needs of the target age group,
whether emergent readers or adolescent readers.
“Lexia gave us exactly what we needed with RAPID and PowerUp,”
said Nancy Talley, Curriculum Director, River Valley Middle School,
Caledonia, Ohio, who beta-tested the product. “After discovering
through our use of RAPID that our entire middle school population
lacked proficiency in grammar, we turned to PowerUp to help close
these skill gaps. RAPID had uncovered a gap in our whole class
literacy instruction and identified our non-proficient readers.
PowerUp, in turn, gave these students the personalized,
student-driven learning they required and supported teachers with
targeted offline instructional materials.”
“With more than 30 years of experience in reading pedagogy and
research and several peer-reviewed studies demonstrating the
efficacy of our instructional approach, we have always put the
needs of teachers and students at the core of what we do,” added
Gaehde. “PowerUp is our latest extension of this mission.
We want to empower teachers who might otherwise feel
unprepared to support non-proficient readers. And we want to meet
the needs of a wide range of students—whether they are struggling
or nearly proficient readers—through a highly engaging and
personalized instruction experience that we believe will
effectively address the decades-long gap in reading proficiency
across our country.”
Additional information about Lexia PowerUp Literacy can be found
at
www.lexialearning.com/pr/introducing-lexia-powerup-literacy.
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About Lexia LearningLexia Learning, a division
of Rosetta Stone, empowers educators through adaptive assessment
and personalized instruction. For more than 30 years, the company
has been on the leading edge of research and product development as
it relates to student reading skills. With a robust offering that
includes solutions for differentiated instruction, personalized
learning and assessment, Lexia Learning provides educators with the
tools to intensify and accelerate literacy skills development for
students of all abilities. For more information, visit
www.lexialearning.com.
About Rosetta StoneRosetta Stone Inc. (NYSE:
RST) is dedicated to changing people’s lives through the power of
language and literacy education. The company’s innovative digital
solutions drive positive learning outcomes for the inspired learner
at home or in schools and workplaces around the world.
Founded in 1992, Rosetta Stone’s language division uses
cloud-based solutions to help all types of learners read, write,
and speak more than 30 languages. Lexia Learning, Rosetta Stone's
literacy education division, was founded more than 30 years ago and
is a leader in the literacy education space. Today, Lexia helps
students build fundamental reading skills through its rigorously
researched, independently evaluated, and widely respected
instruction and assessment programs.
For more information, visit www.rosettastone.com. “Rosetta
Stone” is a registered trademark or trademark of Rosetta Stone Ltd.
in the United States and other countries.
Charlotte Andrist
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