What is Lexia Reading Skills Software?
Lexia's literacy software enables students of all ages and abilities to master essential reading skills. By harnessing the power of technology, through Lexia, schools can equitably provide personalised practise and tuition to all in a time-efficient way.
Lexia® Core5 Reading® and Lexia® PowerUp Literacy® provide scalable, personalised learning to students of all ages and abilities without impacting on teaching time and resources.
Our literacy programs are centred on a personalised learning approach that gives students more control over the time, place, path, and pace of their learning.
Utilising a combination of effective, teacher-led instruction combined with an interactive, user-centric experience, Lexia encapsulates a personalised learning approach that fully supports the varying cognitive abilities of all students.
Lexia is not only research-based, but research-proven to accelerate literacy skills. This includes a recent study funded by the EEF which the results received a ‘high security’ rating and delivery was awarded as ‘low cost’.
With Lexia literacy programs, teachers can see detailed, real-time reports that help prioritise and differentiate instruction, allowing students to develop critical reading skills at their own pace.
Recommended Usage
We recommend at least 3x 30-minute sessions of Lexia use to be timetabled each week.
Educational Impact
Awards
The EdTech Impact Awards are based on independent, verified customer feedback, and recognise the top 10 solutions across each of our 13 impact metrics.
Top Student Knowledge Tool
2025
Top Student Attainment Tool
2025
Top Student Attainment Gap Reduction Tool
2025
Top School Data Management Tool
2025
 Company | Business Name: LexiaUK HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 1997 |
| Age Range | 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18 |
 Features | Adaptive TechnologyInitial Placement AssessmentPersonalised LearningBlended Learning ModelGame-based MotivationPhonicsComprehensionVocabularyFluencyGrammarMorphologyProgress ReportsPersonalised Lesson PlansPaper-based Extension ResourcesCertificatesTeacher Action Plans |
 Languages | English |
 Accessibility | Moderate features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy Policy |
 Requirements | Internet - Low BandwidthInternet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookMobile - iPad |
 Set Up | Once your staff team has recieved online training from our Software Consultants, set up of your students' accounts will take no longer than an hour. |
 Training | Live OnlineWebinarsVideos Ongoing online training and yearly implementation reviews are included as part of your Lexia package. |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge BasePhone Support |
| Home Learning | Parent Access School must create the account. Home Access to the full program available. Parent Reports can be downloaded and sent home. |
 Tags | literacyreadingreading skillsliteracy interventionphonicsfluencyvocabularycomprehensionpersonalisedgrammaradaptivereportingreading interventionreal-time student progressaccelerated readingdigital learningclassroom resourcesKS1KS2KS3 |
AIAI usage The Lexia Reading Skills Software team has not stated whether it uses AI. | |
Lexia Reading Skills Software PricingPricing Plans Free TrialPaid Subscription Lexia Reading Skills Software pricing starts from £25 / per-pupil Pricing packages are bespoke so get in touch to discuss your school's needs with our friendly and knowledgeable team.  Optimised for a quick response | |
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Lexia Reading Skills Software Reviews
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May 2025
An excellent programme to help students who have lower reading ages in comparison to their chronological age.
Helen Klejdysz found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Builds student knowledge“They make progress in Curriculum subjects.”
- Reduces attainment gap“An increase in students' reading ages.”
- Provides school data“WE can see the progress PP and SEND students make.”
- Improves attainment“An improvement in End of Year assessments.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“If students' reading ages go up this helps them make progress with literacy across the curriculum.”
May 2025
I have found using lexia to be extremely resourceful for myself and a great programme for children to build confidence and resilience in their learning. Children are eager to complete their allocated time, to receive certificates, praise and move up the levels.
Raeesa Patel found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“An example would be providing the child with the skill builders pr lesson and providing them with the support required.”
- Builds student knowledge“Student knowledge is recognised not only in lexis but also across the curriculum in other subjects.”
- Provides school data“Impact on school data is that it provides details of the children on the programme and their progression throughout.”
- Improves attainment“children have gained understanding, knowledge and skills.”
- Improves teaching efficiency
May 2025
The children enjoyed using the program and engaged well. All children made progress in the time that we used the program - some more than others. From an adult's point of view, the program ran itself, with only a little input required when a child really didn't understand a concept. These resources for 1:1 delivery were also provided by the program. The support we received was outstanding. Like all interventions, there is a cost associated with the program, which is the only slight limitation.
Jo G found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Builds student knowledge“Younger children are more confident in naming letter names and sounds.”
- Reduces attainment gap“A child that entered the program below their age-expected level has now been assesses at their age-appropriate level following the completing of the program.”
- Provides school data“Data from Lexia is very encouraging. One child made a significant number of steps progress in preparation for the Phonics Test.”
- Improves attainment“Class teachers have reported increased gains the younger children's scores in their preparations for the phonics test. All children using the program have made gains in their attainment (months) in the short time that they have used the software.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“With the children working independently through the software at their own pace, it has allowed me time to work with those individuals in the group who have required 1:1 support, as identified by the program. There is little planning and marking required.”
May 2025
Sarah Ikin found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap
- Builds student knowledge
- Provides school data
- Improves attainment
- Improves teaching efficiency
May 2025
H Andrews found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Builds student knowledge
- Reduces attainment gap“Lexia identifies gaps in prior learning by offering a baseline assessment for individuals in three different areas of Literacy.”
- Provides school data“Progress percentages, individual strand levels and number of units are shared with the reading and communication strategic lead in school to inform future interventions.”
- Improves attainment
- Improves teaching efficiency“Progress bars allow staff to recognise areas of challenge and approach individuals who require support.”
May 2025
It is an individualised programme which helps to build, skills, knowledge and confidence.
Catherine Price found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“Many students are more confident and attaining higher in their areas of greatest difficulty.”
- Builds student knowledge“Helps with vocabulary and knowledge they have not visited for some time.”
- Provides school data
- Improves attainment“It helps to target areas of particular difficulty on an individual basis.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“It enables specific areas of difficulty to be identified and then addressed.”
Apr 2025
Lexia has provided us with a method to deliver literacy interventions to a large number of students without the need for a high proportion of staffing. This has made Lexia very cost effective. We have also seen excellent improvements in the Standard Age Scores of students using Lexia.
L Gregg found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“Students using Lexia have seen an increase in their Standard Age Score for reading. With 100 being the average Standard Age Score (SAS), last year we saw an increase in SAS of 7.9 for students in year 7. In year 9, we saw an average increase in SAS for those students using Lexia of 9.8, with PP students seeing an increase of 12.3 in SAS.”
- Builds student knowledge“It breaks down literacy skills into word study, grammar and comprehension. Following an initial assessment, Lexia will target students to the correct level in each area to develop their literacy skills.”
- Provides school data“Lexia allows the school to track students' individual data and also the cohort as a whole in each of the 3 areas of study so we can see which area needs the most support.”
- Improves attainment“We have less students needing to us Lexia as they get older, showing that their reading age is improving. We have 44 in year 7, 33 in year 8, 30 in year 9 and 19 in year 10.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Students with stronger literacy skills are able to access the curriculum more easily and this makes teaching knowledge and skills in the individual subjects easier.”
Mar 2025
It is such an informative program that starts with the assessment and then measure progress each and every step of the way.
Louise Parker found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“Some of our vulnerable groups have moved from being 1/2 years behind their reading age to exceeding their age related expectations. It is a great bespoke program that goes back and fills in gaps of children's knowledge that they haven't grasped in previous years.”
- Builds student knowledge“The children are more secure in knowing the different terminology and the early reading skills that they weren't ready for such as conjunctions, suffixes etc.”
- Provides school data“Tracking children's data and comparing it with outcomes on the lexia data dashboard is really useful in seeing that children are meeting their targets in all areas of reading- lexia, formal assessments, teacher predictions, fluency in reading and the comprehension skills.”
- Improves attainment“We can identify the gaps from the data dashboard and see how much of a struggle it is and then run intervention groups. The program is repetitive which helps to go in the long term memory. We have 135 licenses up and running now with children aiming for 100 minutes a week. We are seeing the positive impact!”
- Improves teaching efficiency“You can target more children at one time and they are working on level that is bespoke to them. This means more children can be intervened at any given time.”
Gráinne Greaney
Special Education Teacher
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software daily for 4-6 months
Mar 2025
Gráinne Greaney found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“It's a little early to say how significant the impact on the attainment gap is as our school has not been using Lexia long enough but we feel that moat students are benefitting from it.”
- Builds student knowledge
- Provides school data
- Improves attainment
- Improves teaching efficiency“Lexia provides individual explicit teaching lessons for students which are proving effective for teaching and learning.”
Mar 2025
Lexia is easy to use and engaging for students helping them to improve their reading skills quickly. Improved reading means better outcomes for students across all of their studies. As educators it provides data that we can use to support intervention.
Zoe Brundell found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“Students have increased accuracy of comprehension and improved their decoding skills.”
- Builds student knowledge“Students can identify parts of speech and use this to help them form coherent sentence structures. Increased accuracy with comprehension and decoding means students can access their other lessons and gain more knowledge across their studies.”
- Provides school data“Lexia helps us to identify areas for intervention. We track student usage and units gained to monitor student progress.”
- Improves attainment“Improved comprehension and decoding means that students can access all areas of the curriculum more easily and achieve better outcomes.”
- Improves teaching efficiency
Rebecca Lyman
Headteacher
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software daily for 3-4 years
Feb 2025
We really like it and are currently in our second 3 year subscription. Initially, we subscribed during Covid school closure and it enabled us to support and monitor the children's reading, whilst not in school. At the of the 3 years, we could not afford to renew. However, we were very lucky to secure private funding to pay for it - as they felt it was a valuable educational tool, and the children enjoyed it.
Rebecca Lyman found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“Lexia enables children to access high-quality, focused reading tasks at home (as well as school). The fun graphics and 'games' appearance of the content, make children want to complete the tasks...not realising that they are reading. For some children, where they might not be reading at home, this can be a great 'hidden' way to get them to read - without realising.”
- Builds student knowledge“Our reading results are consistently above national and Lexia is one of the strategies we use alongside a well-designed curriculum, where high-quality texts are central.”
- Improves attainment“Lexia is one of several strategies we use in school. Combined together, they had a big impact. Our results are strong.”
- Provides school data“We use the teacher's portal to access whole-school, cohort and individual data. Children receive the certificates in assembly. We give it a high profile. Analysis of the data helps us to know where some children might need additional support - and then implement interventions.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“I am Headteacher of two very small (only 100 in total) small schools. All classes are mixed age and Lexia is one tool we use to enable children to access high-quality learning, whilst the teacher may be working with different groups - confident that they are still maximising their learning time.”
Jan 2025
We have been using Lexia for many years now and have always had a positive experience of this supporting our pupils.
Beth Phipps found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“Children have mastered skills they previously found very difficult.”
- Builds student knowledge“Children can consolidate their previous learning and revisit skills.”
- Provides school data“Data is shared with staff to show what children are working on and which units have been completed. Data shows which year group children are working.”
- Improves attainment“Children have been able secure goals and master skills.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Children are becoming more confident with basic literacy skills, so time and attention can be spent on teaching the unit, rather than basics skills.”
Jan 2025
Excellent communication with Ben. Always on hand to support and respond to questions or provide training. Launch of the system has been seamless and students are responding well and making progress. The rewards system is also welcomed to build a positive culture. In only a few months the intervention is having an impact.
Ashlene Forder found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“Lowest 20% of readers have improved NGRT scores since completing Lexia daily. All students are PP and having reading ages at least 4 years below their chronological ages. This means that assessments are more accessible.”
- Builds student knowledge“Exposure to a range of non-fiction texts and subject specific vocabulary.”
- Provides school data“The platform provides individualised reports with a breakdown for each year group, significantly PP students.”
- Improves attainment
- Improves teaching efficiency“As students reading ages improve they are accessing work that previously they would have been unable to do so. An intervention that takes less man power to facilitate but reaches many students.”
Dec 2024
It is an excellent reading resource which has everything to support pupils to become confident and competent readers.
Amanda Turner found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“Pupil confidence has increased so children are more willing to discuss texts.”
- Provides school data“Faster reading progress is linked to the time pupils spend on Lexia.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“The support materials ensure any staff who are not confident teaching reading can engage well with the learning process.”
- Improves attainment“Since using Lexia, we have fewer pupils who cannot read!”
- Builds student knowledge“It reinforces phonics work and impacts on blending.”
Lana Wrigley
Learning Resources Centre Manager
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software weekly for 1-2 years
Dec 2024
Lexia is a useful piece of software, which, unlike some interventions, students are generally happy to use. It is highly personalised to their needs, and visible measures like streaks etc. help them to understand and appreciate when they have made progress. The UI for staff is intuitive and easy to navigate. However, sometimes there are issues with content loading (e.g., the site is slow to respond to students choosing their answers), and I have noticed that resources tend to default to American spellings/word usages, which can cause confusion in an English school.
Lana Wrigley found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“51% of all students enrolled on Lexia last year increased their Reading Ages (as measure by the Star Reading test). 33% of these increased by more than a year. 71% of our SEND students enrolled on Lexia increased their Reading Ages.”
- Provides school data“We have used the data provided from Lexia in a Challenge Partners review, where external partners visited the school to measure our success in various areas including literacy. It has also been shared with staff across the school to highlight student achievements.”
- Improves teaching efficiency
- Improves attainment
- Builds student knowledge
Jo Traill
Assistant Head
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software weekly for 3-4 years
Dec 2024
The programme is very comprehensive.
Jo Traill found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap
- Provides school data“We hold pupil progress each half term where Lexia data is analysed”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Trained teaching assistants are able to run the Lexia intervention independently.”
- Improves attainment“You can closely monitor as children move through the levels on Lexia.”
- Builds student knowledge“The programme is bespoke so that individuals can work at their own level.”
Nov 2024
It is easy to use and the children enjoy working on it. You can print reports and monitor usage and progress quickly and easily.
Claire Brammer found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“Helps to boost phonic knowledge”
- Provides school data“It feeds into support plans and monitoring.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“lessons can be printed to help support children”
- Improves attainment
- Builds student knowledge
Nov 2024
I think Lexia is a wonderful programme to support students plus the support from the Lexia team is immediate and comprehensive when needed. The whole package takes the student from identifying level placement to lessons and finally to achievement. It gives the student realistic targets to reach their goal.
Linda Poole-White found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“Students reading age, comprehension and spellings have improved. We target the students who are placing below their chronological age and support from there to reduce their knowledge gap.”
- Provides school data“This is the first year that we will be looking at the data significantly but it is already apparent that rolling out Lexia support from Y1 (2023/2024) has had a positive impact on progress.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“The Lexia tasks enable the student to understand the elements of the Literacy curriculum and supports phonics therefore assisting teaching methods and programmes of study.”
- Improves attainment“Students attainment has improved due to their increasing practise of phonics, spelling, comprehension etc. The repetition of learning and reinforcement of Literacy rules has a positive impact on overall achievement. Students are also determined to gain certificates and loyalty stamps which has increased attainment.”
- Builds student knowledge“Younger students can be seen to develop reading and Literacy skills immediately as the programme reinforces the learning rule repeatedly until the knowledge is gained.”
Icylene Walters
HLTA LEAD and Math Specialist
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software daily for 4-6 months
Nov 2024
Lexia works! Its not only tailored for the very young, but for the aged too. Progress is clear and progress is evident.
Icylene Walters found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“Students are able to answer questions using full sentences. They are also able to break more difficult and challenging vocabulary into syllables, in order to pronounce the word or to spell them correctly.”
- Provides school data“Being able to monitor student activity an to also monitor points of struggle and to track progress.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Students are equipped with more knowledge and are enabled to confidently participate more effectively in class discussions”
- Improves attainment“The more knowledge a student acquires, allows them to be more effective in their learning in their lessons”
- Builds student knowledge“As a result of doing Lexia, and the activities involved this helps reinforce vocabulary, grammar rules, and sentence structure. Students are more able to tackle the tasks they are given in lessons.”
Tasnim Yusuf
Assistant Principal - Literacy
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software weekly for 0–3 months
Nov 2024
this programme has been a game-changer for our reading strategy, combining simplicity with measurable success. We look forward to continuing its use and seeing even greater improvements in the future!
Tasnim Yusuf found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“The impact on student progress has been remarkable, with an average improvement of 15% in a short period. This demonstrates the programme’s effectiveness in targeting key areas of reading development. Teachers particularly appreciate the intuitive progress-tracking tools, which provide clear, actionable insights into each student's growth.”
- Provides school data“The impact on student progress has been remarkable, with an average improvement of 15% in a short period.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Its ease of implementation has been a standout feature, allowing our staff to seamlessly integrate it into our existing schedule with minimal disruption. The user-friendly design ensures that both teachers and students can navigate the platform effortlessly, making it accessible and efficient for daily use.”
- Improves attainment“Reading age test data indicates progress is being made at a steady rate for all students”
- Builds student knowledge“clear improvments in students work output and knowledge on grammar concepts”
Tracey Beacher
Deputy Head & SENDCO
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software weekly for 0–3 months
Nov 2024
The children are enjoying it. It is easy to set up and use. The wealth of information regarding attainment and progress the reports provide is useful to inform future planning and teaching, including the addressing of misconceptions through lessons/interventions.
Tracey Beacher found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“We haven't been using it long but for some children it is impacting positively on their reading and writing.”
- Provides school data
- Improves teaching efficiency“The children are guided through the programme matched to need and therefore they are building fluency and efficiency”
- Improves attainment“As a school, we have not yet been using it long enough to see this but I am sure that we will based on the first month.”
- Builds student knowledge“The children are building knowledge of all concepts required to read fluently with a strong understanding of the text.”
Sarah
HOD of department and SENCO
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software daily for 5 years+
Nov 2024
excellent and well developed tasks that target all levels
Sarah found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“improved results for students”
- Provides school data“Monitor with planning and teaching of lesson using adaptive strategies”
- Improves teaching efficiency“adaptive teaching”
- Improves attainment“end of topic test for students have improved”
- Builds student knowledge“able to use in every day school life”
Nov 2024
Professional yet aimed at child's level with help as required followed by superb data analysis
Karen van Duivenvoorde found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“Gaps filled alongside pushing expected/greater depth children”
- Provides school data“SAT's results”
- Improves teaching efficiency“Can be used in groups with headphones with one to one help via Lexia programme supervised by teaching staff”
- Improves attainment“Understanding and misconceptions addressed”
- Builds student knowledge“Again, any misconceptions addressed plus practise as required”
Laura Chamberlain
SENCo & Assistant Principal
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software weekly for 7–12 months
Nov 2024
Children are engaged and use it self taught. Would like clearer impact via data
Laura Chamberlain found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“Increase in reading age”
- Provides school data“Reading ages”
- Improves teaching efficiency
- Improves attainment
- Builds student knowledge
Michelle
Head of Learning Support
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software daily for 4-6 months
Nov 2024
We are very early on in our Lexia journey. This could potentially increase to a 10 but let's see where we are in 12 months time with reading progress at school!
Michelle found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Reduces attainment gap“There is already evidence that the attainment gap is closing for some pupils in school.”
- Provides school data“Able to share more concrete data about reading progress with school staff and parents. Progress is easy to see on the various reports you can produce. The data is supporting the adaptation of phonics teaching and spelling in the school.”
- Improves teaching efficiency“The learning support team are able to utilise data to inform teachers about skills that are not yet secure/usage of the programme and next steps for individual learners.”
- Improves attainment“In the short time we have been using Lexia, some pupils have made 2+ months progress and closed gaps in their learning.”
- Builds student knowledge“There are lots of engaging texts that expand knowledge and understanding.”
