Product News and Updates: PowerUp

For PowerUp Students

• We added weekly unit goals to the student’s Home screen. Features include:

  • Each strand has its own unit goal, which resets weekly.

  • The meter on the strand card now shows the student’s weekly units completed and their goal.

  • Students see a celebration when they meet their unit goal.

  • Weekly minute targets remain unchanged and strands will lock when those are reached.

  • Educators can turn off automatic strand management in myLexia to keep strands open regardless of time spent.

• We added a Resume Last Activity button at the bottom of the Home screen. This new button:

  • allows students to jump directly back into the unit they were last working on

  • saves time and encourages completion of unfinished work

  • appears only after a student begins working in the program and once per session

• We added new background music to the Home screen.

• We updated passages, themes, and art in Comprehension Levels 2 and 4 to enhance engagement, vocabulary development, and higher-order thinking skills.

  Note: Level 2, Activities 3 and 4 were previously updated in Summer 2024.

• We added new Essential Vocabulary activities with new art to Levels 7–15.

  • These activities provide explicit vocabulary instruction before reading passages.

  • Students no longer have to click through the passage to get to the work.

• Sight Words activities are now called High-Frequency Words.

  • We added new explicit instruction to highlight letter-sound correspondences.

• We made data-driven updates to Skill Checks to support engagement and maintain assessment integrity.

• We made accessibility updates across the program, including:

  • adding keyboard navigation for combining and categorizing tasks

For PowerUp Educators

• We revised Resources Hub content and myLexia resources to reflect updates made in the program.

  • View the Passage Reference Guide (PRG) Companion to view details about the changes to passages in Comprehension Levels 2.1, 2.2, and 4.

  • We updated Goal Setting and Progress Tracking resources to reflect new student-facing unit goals.

  • We updated Foundational Comprehension Lexia Lessons for Levels 2 and 4.

  • We updated PDF and digital Lexia Lessons, Skill Builders, and Anchor Charts to reflect High-Frequency Words changes.

  • We updated the Teacher’s Manual was updated to reflect the new student-facing goals, content changes to essential vocabulary activities, Comprehension Levels 2 and 4 updates, and High-Frequency Words changes.

PowerUp

For PowerUp Students

• We added Volume Control in PowerUp!

  Students can adjust the program volume from the audio dropdown menu.

• We updated the Unit Progress Bar to more accurately reflect a student’s progress within timed and recycled units.

  In Auto Placement, students can now see where they are in completing the 5 units that span the Comprehension, Word Study, and Grammar sections.

• For accessibility, we added:

  • Keyboard Support for additional tasks and Login

  • Additional support for Color Contrast

For PowerUp Educators

• We added the ability for educators to disable automatic strand management, which prevents strands from turning off when students reach their weekly minutes.

  This flexibility allows for better support of a variety of implementations. See the myLexia section above for more details.

• PowerUp Resources Hub Updates:

  • We changed the Volume Control screenshot in the PowerUp Teacher’s Manual.

  • We added a new language translation to our collection: Bengali!

    We translated the General Achievement Certificate, General Home Use Letter, and Clever Add-On Letter.

  • We translated the PowerUp General Achievement Certificate into 11 more additional languages.