We have been working with Educational Intervention Specialists Lexonik for over 8 years and have helped over 650 students improve their reading age.
We use Lexonik to target students whose reading age is below their chronological age. It is a six-week course, which is fun, fast and focused. Lexonik advance is based on phonological knowledge, syllable, polysyllabic knowledge and being able to determine the meaning of words through the understanding of prefix, stem(root) words and suffixes.
We also use Lexonik LEAP, which is a great course for students who are missing some or large portions of their phonological knowledge, this could be down to being a student with EAL status, having additional needs or with gaps in their knowledge base. LEAP is different because it targets the gaps in knowledge, and you only teach what the student doesn't know. After an initial diagnostic assessment, you know exactly what areas need to be focused on. It takes place once a week for 20 minutes in registration time, meaning students still experience majority of their tutor time. LEAP covers phonemes, graphemes, split diagraphs, high frequency words, 2 syllable word reading and the meaning of prefixes.
The Reading Development Programme selects students on their NGRT results and provides them with further opportunity for comprehension reading. We keep track of student progress and hope to see an improvement in further NGRT scores following this greater intervention.