The team at Lexia® are dedicated to continuously evolving our literacy programmes to meet the needs of today’s educators and learners. This year’s enhancements are designed to deliver even more effective, engaging, and accessible learning experiences.
Lexia® Core5® Reading
Core5 is an adaptive literacy program that accelerates the development of literacy skills for all students from Reception to Year 6, helping them build skills in both word recognition and comprehension to support reading success.
Enhanced Autoplacement Experience
To create a more seamless and supportive experience, we’ve added engaging new visuals and informative audio, including enhanced Language Support audio, before and directly after the completion of placement, so learners clearly understand what to expect.
Data-Driven Updates to Skills Checks
Skill Checks have been refined using data-driven insights to boost student engagement while preserving assessment accuracy.
Audio Updates to Passage Fluency Units
The updated intro and directional audio in Passage Fluency activities provide concise guidance and a more streamlined experience for learners.
Core5 Instructional Resources: Empowering Educators and Learners
The Comprehension and Vocabulary Lexia Lessons® have been updated with a new format that aligns with the science of reading and research-based best practices, providing a seamless experience for both educators and students. Core5 Digital Lexia Lessons for Phonological Awareness, Fluency, and Phonics also now reflect these changes.
We’ve expanded language accessibility with the addition of Bengali translations for several key caregiver materials, including the General Achievement Certificate and General Home Use Letter, ensuring more families can stay informed and engaged.
Core5 Accessibility Enhancements
Recent enhancements to Core5 further strengthen alignment with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), making the program increasingly more accessible, inclusive, and user- friendly for all learners. These updates include incremental improvements to keyboard navigation for easier and more intuitive movement through the program, significant upgrades to colour contrast to improve readability, and additional support for sensory characteristics to help ensure that every student can engage meaningfully with the content.
Lexia® PowerUp® Literacy
PowerUp is designed specifically for students specifically for students in Years 7 to 11 who need extra support with literacy to fully access and thrive in the wider secondary curriculum. The program focuses on accelerating literacy gains through an intensive, personalised learning experience that enhances reading, writing, and comprehension skills. PowerUp enables students to make multiple years of growth in a single academic year.
New: Units Goals
PowerUp students now have weekly Unit Goals that display directly on the Home Screen. Each strand card features a progress meter showing how many units the student has completed in that strand during the week, along with their weekly time goal. Each strand has its own specific unit goal, designed to balance achievability and progress, and these goals reset at the start of each week. Students are encouraged to meet, and strive to exceed, their unit goals on their way to improving their reading proficiency.
Flexible Strand Management Option
Educators have the ability to turn off automatic strand management, ensuring all learning units remain active even after students meet their weekly usage goals. This added flexibility supports a wider range of instructional models and implementation strategies.
Boosting Student Engagement
PowerUp introduces the following exciting new features designed to create a more engaging, efficient, and motivating experience for students.
- Background music has been added to the Home Page, creating a more dynamic and inviting atmosphere.
- Celebratory animations now appear when students meet unit goals, offering positive reinforcement that encourages continued progress.
- A convenient button on the Home Page allows students to return to their last activity by jumping straight back into the unit they were working on during their last session. This time-saving feature helps students bypass intro videos and activity selections, encouraging them to complete unfinished work and stay on track. The button appears once a student has begun working in the program.
Engaging Content and Stronger Vocabulary Support
As part of PowerUp’s ongoing commitment to delivering research-driven, student-centred literacy instruction, we’ve made the following key updates to strengthen comprehension and vocabulary support across the program:
- The Comprehension strand in Levels 2 and 4 now features new passages, refreshed themes, and updated artwork, all designed to spark curiosity and increase engagement. These enhancements support key instructional goals by integrating rich content-area topics, targeted vocabulary development, and higher-order thinking skills to deepen comprehension.
- In Levels 7–15, students will benefit from brand-new Essential Vocabulary activities that include explicit instruction and custom artwork to introduce key terms before reading. This intentional approach moves beyond passive exposure, offering meaningful vocabulary support that strengthens understanding and boosts overall reading success.
- To better reflect current research and ensure alignment with Core5, and educational standards, “Sight Words” in PowerUp are now called “High-Frequency Words.”
myLexia
myLexia is a platform and reporting tool designed to support educators using Lexia’s language and literacy programs (Core5 and PowerUp). The platform provides real-time access to detailed student performance data, allowing teachers to monitor individual and classroom progress efficiently while equipping district/school leaders to monitor district- and school-level usage and progress.
Deeper Insights, Streamlined Navigation, and Enhanced Reporting
Usability Improvements for Educators in myLexia
- Improved Student Navigation in the Reading Tab (Core5 and PowerUp): Educators using Lexia Core5 Reading and Lexia PowerUp Literacy can now easily switch between students within the Reading tab using a dropdown class list or arrow navigation. This eliminates the need to return to the Class Overview each time, streamlining progress review and saving valuable time.
- Set a Default Class (Core5 and PowerUp): Teachers using Lexia’s literacy programs, Core5 and PowerUp, can now set a default class to appear upon login. This enhancement enables quicker, more focused access to the student data that matters most.
Core5-Specific Enhancements in myLexia
See When Core5 Students Were Flagged for Instruction
In the Core5 Needs Instruction tab of the Class Action Plan, educators can now view the date each student was flagged for needing instruction. This added detail helps educators more effectively prioritise and plan timely interventions.
PowerUp-Specific Enhancements in myLexia
- Class-Level Student Activity Export With Skill Check Scores: A new export option in the Skills Status report lets teachers view all PowerUp activity data for their entire class in one place—including Skill Check scores—without needing to open individual student reports.
- PowerUp Certificates on Student Action Plan: Teachers can now access a student’s latest PowerUp certificates directly from the Student Action Plan, making it easier to recognise student success.
PowerUp Unit Goals and Usage Report Enhancements
Weekly unit goals have been added for students using PowerUp. Educators can now monitor student progress toward these goals in the Class Usage Report within myLexia. To support this, we’ve improved the report layout, making it easier to find key information at a glance. Updates include a clearer display of student usage and unit progress, now organised by strand.
