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  • Sigel Elementary School
  • Saint Louis, MO
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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When my students arrived to my second-grade classroom in August, 83% of them were reading below grade level. When I analyzed the data further, I discovered that only 11% of my students were reading one year below grade level. I found that 28% were reading two years below grade level. Most alarmingly, 44% of my students were reading more than two years below grade level. As a second-grade teacher in an inner-city classroom, I live and breathe every day the sense of urgency in preparing my students for the challenges of third grade: 31% of African-American and 33% of Hispanic students who live in poverty and fail to read proficiently in third grade will not graduate high school. My students need a research-based and proven system that can propel their reading skills from letter identification and foundational phonics all the way to reading and comprehending fiction and nonfiction texts at a level that adequately prepares them for achieving reading proficiency in third grade. With this goal in mind, I plan to implement the Lexia Core5 Reading program in my classroom next year, at a cost of $44 per student. I am experienced at implementing this program with fidelity, maximizing its effect on student achievement through just-right instruction, adaptive learning paths, embedded progress monitoring, and targeted skills practice with re-teaching resources. Lexia supports students’ needs in reaching their intensely rigorous academic goals, boosting achievement in reading skills that is directly evident in documented increases in standardized test scores. Lexia claims 67% of high-risk students gain two or more grade levels in reading skills within a single school year. The only barrier keeping my students from accessing this incredible resource is the funding of a class set of student licenses.

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When my students arrived to my second-grade classroom in August, 83% of them were reading below grade level. When I analyzed the data further, I discovered that only 11% of my students were reading one year below grade level. I found that 28% were reading two years below grade level. Most alarmingly, 44% of my students were reading more than two years below grade level. As a second-grade teacher in an inner-city classroom, I live and breathe every day the sense of urgency in preparing my students for the challenges of third grade: 31% of African-American and 33% of Hispanic students who live in poverty and fail to read proficiently in third grade will not graduate high school. My students need a research-based and proven system that can propel their reading skills from letter identification and foundational phonics all the way to reading and comprehending fiction and nonfiction texts at a level that adequately prepares them for achieving reading proficiency in third grade. With this goal in mind, I plan to implement the Lexia Core5 Reading program in my classroom next year, at a cost of $44 per student. I am experienced at implementing this program with fidelity, maximizing its effect on student achievement through just-right instruction, adaptive learning paths, embedded progress monitoring, and targeted skills practice with re-teaching resources. Lexia supports students’ needs in reaching their intensely rigorous academic goals, boosting achievement in reading skills that is directly evident in documented increases in standardized test scores. Lexia claims 67% of high-risk students gain two or more grade levels in reading skills within a single school year. The only barrier keeping my students from accessing this incredible resource is the funding of a class set of student licenses.

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