Lexia

Most Precious Blood students leave with solid reading skills. We foster and nurture, challenge and teach our students so they develop into life-long readers. With great success we synthesize both traditional and technologically based reading programs. Open Court Reading provides a very fertile opportunity for our teachers to instruct and teach the students Phonics and reading skills.

We also stepped forward, embracing technology as we utilize Lexia. Lexia is one of the best-known and most highly respected reading software companies in the world.

Reading

Lexia Reading represents a revolution in reading education. Our award-winning, web-enabled software provides students guided practice on foundational reading skills, suggesting additional practice for the skills that trouble them and advancing students to higher levels when they succeed.

• Administrators and teachers can manage, assess, and monitor students’ reading progress by district, school, grade, class, and individually, and compare it to national standards that provide concrete measures of reading skills.

• Lexia Reading automatically suggests appropriate offline components to deliver targeted support to each student: Lexia Lessons® are explicit, scripted lesson plans for teachers to provide direct skill instruction; and Lexia Skill Builders® are paper and pencil practice sheets to help students consolidate acquired skills.

• Lexia Reading provides explicit, systematic, and structured practice on the essential reading skills of phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. o Lexia Early and Primary Reading is designed for ages 4 through 8 (grades pre-K through 3rd), with activities built to ensure that students acquire and improve critical pre-reading and basic reading skills.