Product News and Updates: Lexia English

For Lexia English Students

• We enhanced students’ views of their progress within the program, including:

  • adding the ability on the Home screen for students to see their weekly progress in both units and time completed

  • updating the Home, Act, and Encounters pages to show current level, number of acts in that level, associated characters, and encounters completed and remaining

• We added Native Language Support (Spanish) in Levels 1–4.

  • Students who have Native Language support enabled will now be able to access directions and media audio in Spanish after hearing them in English.

• We added the student avatar to the login confirmation screen to further cement the relationship between the student and their avatar.

• We made data-driven updates to program units in Grammar and Listening as well as Presentation of Knowledge units to support student engagement and maintain assessment integrity.

• We made accessibility updates, including adding:

  • keyboard navigation throughout the full program

  • a new volume control slider in the Audio menu

• We enhanced speech recognition accuracy and performance by improving:

  • acoustic models, using new data sets

  • microphone handling

  • resilience in speech recognition

For Lexia English Educators

• We revised Resources Hub content to reflect updates made in the program, including:

  • updating Digital Listening Lessons for Levels 4, 6, 9, 11, and 15

  • updating Passage Reference Guide to reflect program passage updates

  • adding more detailed usage and progress monitoring guidance to District and School Overview resources

  • adding information to the Teacher's Manual to support new program features and content

• We updated Instructional Resources in myLexia, including:

  • PDF Listening Lessons for Levels 4, 6, 9, 11, and 15, to include new program passage changes

Lexia English

For Lexia English Students

• We added select Art Updates throughout the program to enhance Lexia English visually and provide a relatable and engaging learning experience.

• We upgraded Character Audio program-wide to ensure a consistent volume and quality of audio.

• We changed the Onboarding Animations in the Resources Hub capture the latest updates implemented in Lexia English.

• We dimmed the home “indicator” on buttonless iPads for a better visual experience.

• We added the option for students to skip task demos in select tasks if they have recently worked in that task type.

• For accessibility, we added:

  • Additional support for Keyboard Navigation

  • Full support for Language of Parts

For Lexia English Educators

• We added an Avatar Demo Button to Educator Mode so educators can customize their own Lexia English avatar and see how the avatar feature works.

• Lexia English Resources Hub Updates:

  • We added a new “Using Lexia English Language Development and Lexia Core5 Reading In Parallel” document that provides general guidelines for educators using both Lexia English and Core5.

  • We added many new translations to Lexia English resources:

    • We added Bengali versions of the General Achievement Certificate, General Home Use Letter, Clever Add-On Letter, Lexia English Parent Report, and Lexia English Visual Guide.

    • The Speak@Home Newsletters are now available in French, Korean, Vietnamese, Russian, Haitian-Creole, Farsi, Urdu, Pashto, Swahili, Tagalog, Bengali, Chinese, Arabic, Dari, Polish, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Gujarati, Hmong, and Somali.

  • We created new Speaking Practice Anchor Charts for educators to easily access and utilize each Speaking Practice Lesson Language Frame in Lexia English.