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.
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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.
Ongoing online training and yearly implementation reviews are included as part of your Lexia package.
School must create the account.
Home Access to the full program available. Parent Reports can be downloaded and sent home.
Lexia Reading Skills Software Pricing
Free Trial Paid Subscription
Pricing packages are bespoke so get in touch to discuss your school's needs with our friendly and knowledgeable team.

Lexia Reading Skills Software Reviews
from 101 Verified Reviews
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Jul 2025
As a retired headteacher of a primary school, I saw first hand the impact that Lexia had in supporting students who were struggling developing their reading skills. Now working in a secondary school I was unsure if it would have the same impact. Initially the programme was used during form time and it was not having a lot of impact. However, we reviewed how it was used and made changes, and now students using the programme are showing the same level of improvement in developing their skills that I saw in the primary school.
Jo Bezer found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Students are able to use skills learnt doing Lexia back in the classroom. Teachers have reported student's spelling and grammar have improved since doing lexia.”
- Significantly provides school data
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Student's confidence grows and they move from 'I can't do this' to 'I will give this a try' and 'I can do this'.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Our school data clearly shows that all students make progress in reading, from 18 months to 5+ years, depending on how long they have accessed the programme.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Lexia is not just an on-line learning teaching programme. I am able to give individual 1-1 support when a student is struggling with a particular aspect. With Lexia's excellent tracking system I can also ensure that students are accessing all areas of the programme in equal parts and not just the ones they want to, e.g. students try to avoid grammar.”

Debbie Young
Pastoral Support
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software daily for 3-4 years
Jul 2025
10 out of 10 the program is very user friendly & the support excellent
Debbie Young found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Improves vocabulary, spelling & grammar”
- Significantly provides school data“Individual progress”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Reduced gap”
- Significantly improves attainment“Helps understanding in the classroom”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency

Miss Kiran Satti
Deputy Headteacher
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software weekly for 3-4 years
Jul 2025
Miss Kiran Satti found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Moderately builds student knowledge“We have used Lexia as part of our Early Reading case studies. Because of Lexia's diagnostic and responsive tools, we were able to pin point the exact interventions to develop specific early reading skills needed to facilitate progress in reading. Even though the child di not pass the phonics screening check, or reach age related, we know that he made accelerated progress, partly due to the precision and support of the Lexia programme.”
- Significantly provides school data“The level of detail you gain from the data is excellent. This supports me in faciltating and developing Reading pedagogy across phases in a way that I wouldn't be able to without Lexia. It enables me to cascade specific CPD as well as track the impact of implementation of the AI generated interventions and Lexia lessons”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap
- Moderately improves attainment
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency

Sharon Gannon
Teaching Assistant
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software daily for 5+ years
Jul 2025
Sharon Gannon found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Significantly builds student knowledge
- Moderately provides school data
- Moderately reduces attainment gap
- Moderately improves attainment
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency

Rob Langstone
SENCO
The Sir Robert Woodard Academy
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software weekly for 3-4 years
Jul 2025
It's easy to deliver and the programme works well, but finding the time for students to complete it within the curriculum can be a challenge.
Rob Langstone found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Student reading ages have increased and their ability to understand literacy in the classroom has been enhanced.”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap
- Slightly provides school data
- Slightly improves attainment
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency

Caoimhe Mcquaid
Teacher
Millquarter Primary School, Northern Ireland
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software weekly for 0-3 months
Jun 2025
Caoimhe Mcquaid found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Building Literacy skills phonological awareness”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap
- Significantly provides school data
- Significantly improves attainment
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“More efficient, targeted instruction. Easy to use and integrate into daily routines”

Paula Crimes
SENCO
St Werburgh's and St Columba's Catholic Primary School
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software daily for 3-4 years
Jun 2025
Since introducing Lexia, I’ve seen strong gains in reading confidence and ability, particularly in decoding and vocabulary. Most importantly, children who were previously disengaged from reading are now choosing to use Lexia in their own time – a clear indication of its value. It is a fantastic resource that works for struggling readers.
Paula Crimes found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Lexia Core5 Reading has been a hugely valuable support tool. It has helped to fill gaps in phonics, decoding, and fluency.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“For pupils with low confidence, this personalised approach has made a real difference – they feel successful and engaged. We have seen strong gains in reading confidence and ability, particularly in decoding and vocabulary. Most importantly, children who were previously disengaged from reading are now choosing to use Lexia in their own time – a clear sign of its impact.”
- Slightly provides school data
- Moderately improves attainment“Improved phonics knowledge, decoding and fluency.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“For a Year 2 teacher who uses Lexia with several pupils reading 12–24 months below age expectations, Lexia Core5 Reading has proved to be a hugely valuable support tool. The adaptive structure allows each child to work at their level, filling gaps in phonics, decoding, and fluency without feeling left behind. For pupils with low confidence, this personalised approach has made a real difference – they feel successful and engaged. The programme is easy to integrate into class routines, and the audio and visual elements support independent use, even for those who usually need extra adult help. The data and progress tracking are also clear and useful, helping me target interventions more effectively.”

Beth Grant
Librarian
Bradford Girls' Grammar School
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software daily for 3-4 years
Jun 2025
Power up along with Core 5 are such powerful tools that deliver results again and again. The students enjoy it and they learn without realising they are learning. So many of them say to me 'I don't think Lexia is helping me at all' and then we look at their data and show them where they were and where they are now and they can't believe the progress they have made. Core 5 is very useful for our EAL students too.
Beth Grant found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Slightly reduces attainment gap
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Helps them with their English speaking, writing and listening”
- Significantly provides school data“Shows the progress the girls are making or have made since starting the Lexia power up program”
- Significantly improves attainment“My EAL students who couldn't read or speak much English less than a year ago are now holding conversations and reading simple texts and understanding them”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“I enjoy sitting with the girls and helping them with their skill builders. Its helped me become a better teacher for them”

Jun 2025
A very easy to use, and solid support system that works through content in a linear, coherent way.
Harry Hearn found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Have had students go from reading ages of 7 to reading ages of 12-13 within two years - catching them up with their peers.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Students have been seen in English classes giving an analysis the others haven't though about, and it will be because they have just done something similar on Lexia.”
- Moderately provides school data“We can see data from across the participants where they were and where they have got to.”
- Moderately improves attainment“In English especially, but even with increasing reading age, allowing them to access questions in other subjects that they would not have been able to comprehend before.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency

Amy Robbins
Head of Department
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software weekly for 7-12 months
Jun 2025
Lexia has been incredibly successful within our school. As a mainstream state school with a wide range of ability and SEN, Lexia has provided us with a reading and literacy strategy that supports all students as they transition from primary school and for those who continue to use Lexia into KS4, who struggle with persistent literacy difficulties that require intervention beyond quality first teaching. Monica Babuta, who has been my contact at Lexia has made the process of shifting to Lexia easy and successful. Supportive training and team-calls with Monica have been invaluable.
Amy Robbins found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Students with dyslexia have benefited significantly from accessing the program. It has enabled them to read texts pitched at their level, whilst explicit instruction in literacy skills has enabled them to develop these alongside their reading levels.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“The content of reading material is varied and wide-ranging, developing students' understanding of the world. Texts are also from a range of genres, perspectives, cultures and contexts, increasing pupils ability and confidence with the unseen texts pupils will encounter at GCSE.”
- Significantly provides school data“A wide range of data relation to students' usage and progress is available that enables the school to reflect on pupils academic achievements and effort levels. Data is also available to leaders to provide information about the fidelity of the way the program is implemented by literacy leads and class teachers.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Teachers and pupils have commented on the knowledge and skills that pupils have developed through Lexia. Pupils have commented upon improvements in spelling, grammar and reading ability in particular, whilst teachers have noted improvements in writing accuracy and ability.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Precision teaching through Lexia means that teachers can personalise learning and target key areas of need for every individual in their classroom at the same time.”

Laura Pheasey
Teacher
United Kingdom
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software daily for 4-6 months
Jun 2025
Really positive so far, yet to see the full impact. Progress with higher ability is slower, and the grammar units are very long which doesn't motivate students terribly well. I think there could be improvements to the tracking - I'd like to be able to 'mass print' the student tracking grids, and see their streaks without having to ask them.
Laura Pheasey found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“SEN students and those in lower ability sets have made significant progress in all 3 strands. The gender gap has also decreased.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Students are applying their knowledge gained from Lexia across the curriculum”
- Significantly provides school data“Daily use of data to inform interventions and support”
- Significantly improves attainment“Students are applying their knowledge across the curriculum”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency“Not enough evidence yet”

Jun 2025
In my opinion, the programme is good and it ticks a lot of our boxes. As a school, we are trying to work out how we can use the interventions to the best of their ability.
James Bushell found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“I have seen children who have used Lexia as a supplementary tool and it has helped them close the gap with their peers.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Children have been able to retain new vocabulary and embed that into their learning.”
- Moderately provides school data“As data lead it has helped me track reading and see the progress within the lessons. Furthermore, enabling the teaching staff to use this as a supplementary resource in order to bolster attainment.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Certain children have closed the gaps as this has been seen in their internal data alongside their assessment. As a school, we are now tracking the children and their data who are also using this as part of their reading journey.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency

Cassie Massey
Learning Support
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software daily for 3-4 years
Jun 2025
Cassie Massey found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Significantly reduces attainment gap
- Significantly builds student knowledge
- Moderately provides school data
- Significantly improves attainment
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency

L. Foley
Special Education Teacher
Selskar College, Ireland
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software daily for 0-3 months
Jun 2025
Lexia PowerUp has proven to be a highly effective, student-centred literacy intervention. It delivers measurable progress, engages even reluctant readers, and provides excellent real-time data to guide teaching. The programme is easy to implement, supports diverse learner needs, and has had a noticeable impact on confidence, skill development, and overall literacy attainment in a short space of time. It’s an invaluable tool for any educator supporting post-primary students with reading difficulties.
L. Foley found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Students made measurable gains in multiple strands of the programme (e.g., Word Study, Grammar, Comprehension) within a short timeframe of less than one month. Each student showed progress in specific skill areas directly aligned with their individual literacy profiles (e.g. phonological awareness, vocabulary, sentence structure). Students are working below age-level expectations, and the tailored support provided by Lexia appears to be narrowing the gap by building foundational skills and improving reading confidence. The use of consistent progress tracking and personalised pathways indicates the programme is targeting the exact skills needed to close literacy gaps.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
- Significantly provides school data“The reports offer visual tracking of progress over time and highlight when students are struggling or excelling, supporting early intervention and personalised planning. The data is easily exportable and suitable for use in Support Plans and Reviews.”
- Significantly improves attainment“In just a few weeks, students made tangible gains in core literacy areas, such as phonological decoding, grammar, and reading comprehension. One student moved up multiple units in Word Study, while another progressed from struggling with basic sentence structure to applying grammar rules with greater accuracy. The structured, adaptive nature of Lexia ensures that progress is both meaningful and measurable.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“The programme significantly enhanced the efficiency of my literacy support sessions. While students worked independently through their personalised pathways, I was able to provide targeted support to individuals without interrupting the learning of others. The built-in progress tracking reduced the need for separate assessments and planning, allowing me to make real-time instructional decisions. This level of automation and insight has made it easier to manage mixed-ability groups effectively and maximise the impact of each session.”

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:
- Significantly builds student knowledge“They make progress in Curriculum subjects.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“An increase in students' reading ages.”
- Significantly provides school data“WE can see the progress PP and SEND students make.”
- Significantly improves attainment“An improvement in End of Year assessments.”
- Moderately 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:
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“An example would be providing the child with the skill builders pr lesson and providing them with the support required.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Student knowledge is recognised not only in lexis but also across the curriculum in other subjects.”
- Significantly provides school data“Impact on school data is that it provides details of the children on the programme and their progression throughout.”
- Moderately improves attainment“children have gained understanding, knowledge and skills.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency

Jo G
Classroom Assistant
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software daily for 0-3 months
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:
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Younger children are more confident in naming letter names and sounds.”
- Significantly 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.”
- Significantly provides school data“Data from Lexia is very encouraging. One child made a significant number of steps progress in preparation for the Phonics Test.”
- Significantly 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.”
- Significantly 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.”

Sarah Ikin
Vice Principal
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software weekly for 5+ years
May 2025
Sarah Ikin found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Moderately reduces attainment gap
- Moderately builds student knowledge
- Significantly provides school data
- Moderately improves attainment
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency

H Andrews
Learning Support
Rivington and Blackrod High School
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software daily for 0-3 months
May 2025
H Andrews found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Significantly builds student knowledge
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Lexia identifies gaps in prior learning by offering a baseline assessment for individuals in three different areas of Literacy.”
- Significantly 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.”
- Significantly improves attainment
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Progress bars allow staff to recognise areas of challenge and approach individuals who require support.”

Catherine Price
Classroom Assistant
Rivington and Blackrod High School
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software weekly for 7-12 months
May 2025
It is an individualised programme which helps to build, skills, knowledge and confidence.
Catherine Price found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Many students are more confident and attaining higher in their areas of greatest difficulty.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Helps with vocabulary and knowledge they have not visited for some time.”
- Significantly provides school data
- Moderately improves attainment“It helps to target areas of particular difficulty on an individual basis.”
- Moderately 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:
- Significantly 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.”
- Significantly 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.”
- Significantly 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.”
- Significantly 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.”
- Significantly 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.”

Louise Parker
Assistant Headteacher
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software daily for 1-2 years
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:
- Moderately 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.”
- Significantly 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.”
- Significantly 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.”
- Significantly 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!”
- Significantly 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
Dromclough National School, Ireland
Used Lexia Reading Skills Software daily for 4-6 months
Mar 2025
Gráinne Greaney found Lexia Reading Skills Software:
- Slightly 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.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge
- Significantly provides school data
- Significantly improves attainment
- Significantly 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:
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Students have increased accuracy of comprehension and improved their decoding skills.”
- Moderately 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.”
- Significantly provides school data“Lexia helps us to identify areas for intervention. We track student usage and units gained to monitor student progress.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Improved comprehension and decoding means that students can access all areas of the curriculum more easily and achieve better outcomes.”
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency

Rebecca Lyman
Headteacher
Birstwith C Of E Primary School, England
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:
- Slightly 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.”
- Moderately 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.”
- Slightly improves attainment“Lexia is one of several strategies we use in school. Combined together, they had a big impact. Our results are strong.”
- Significantly 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.”
- Significantly 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.”
