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Utah State Board of Education Approves Lexia Reading Core5 as K–3 Reading Improvement Program

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Under this state-funded initiative, Utah educators who choose Core5 from the approved list can implement Core5 with the knowledge that the program meets the USBE requirements to become an essential component of a district’s literacy implementation.”

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Most English lessons on Teachers Pay Teachers and other sites are ‘mediocre’ or ‘not worth using,’ study finds

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A curriculum expert who reviewed the pedagogy explained to me that the unit was “weak” and does not meet Common Core standards as the creator claimed. But otherwise, instruction in this Shakespeare unit rarely goes deeper than a surface understanding of the text. Such a lifesaver!” More than 80 percent of U.S.

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Consistent Use of Lexia Reading Core5 Leads to Surge in Charter Schools USA Elementary Students Literacy Gains

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Performance was captured with RIT (Rasch unIT) scores, which measure student achievement on an equal-interval scale across all grades, and researchers compared students’ fall and spring levels in Core5 to their fall 2016 and spring 2017 MAP RIT scores. “We Students who met usage targets also significantly increased their RIT scores by 16.8