Scope & Sequence: by Skills

Lexia Reading Core5® covers the six areas of reading instruction, including activities focused on academic vocabulary
through structural analysis. This begins with oral language and listening comprehension, building to reading comprehension.
The program aligns to rigorous reading standards, including the Common Core State Standards.

AREA OF READING INSTRUCTION AND SKILLS

Phonological Phonics Structural Automaticity/ Vocabulary Comprehension

LEVEL Awareness Analysis Fluency

Level 1 • Rhyming • Upper and Lower Case • Automaticity with • Basic Categories • Listening Comprehension
(Pre-K)
Letters (visual matching) ——— Foundational Concepts
• Picturing

• Blending & Segmenting • Alphabetizing • Automaticity with • Spatial Concepts • Listening Comprehension
Syllables & Sounds Foundational Concepts
• Letter-Sound • Advanced Adjectives • Picturing
Levels • Beginning Sounds Correspondence • High-Frequency
• Comprehension
Sight Words
2–5 • Ending Sounds • Letter Names ——— Strategies with Narrative
(K) & Informational Text
• Short & Long Vowel • Timed Silent Reading
Sounds at Word Level
• Manipulating Sounds

• Short & Long Vowel • Digraphs • Automaticity with • Categorizing & • Listening Comprehension
Sounds Foundational Concepts Associations
• Easily Reversible Letters • Understanding Text
• Manipulating Sounds (b, d, p) • High-Frequency • Multiple Meaning Words Structure
(substitutions) Sight Words °°Sequencing Sentences
• Word Families
Levels • Sentence Structure • Comprehension
• Contractions
6–9 ——— Strategies with Narrative
• Six Syllable Types & Informational Text
(Grade 1)
°°Closed • Reading Comprehension
°°Open
°°Silent e °°Matching Words/
Phrases with Pictures
• Timed Silent Reading °°Cloze Sentence
at Word Level Comprehension

• Manipulating Sounds • Irregular Plurals and • Simple Suffixes • Automaticity with • Synonyms and Antonyms • Listening Comprehension
(additions & deletions) Verbs Foundational Concepts
• Prefixes • Similes and Metaphors • Understanding Text
• Hard and Soft c & g • High-Frequency Structure
Sight Words °°Building Sentences
Levels • Six Syllable Types
• Sentence Structure
°°Analyzing Sentence
°°Closed ° Vowel r Structure
10–12 °°Open ° Vowel °°Signal Words
Combinations • Timed Silent Reading
(Grade 2) at Word Level • Comprehension
°°Silent e ° Consonant le
Strategies with Narrative
• Rules for Syllable Division • Timed Silent Reading & Informational Text
• Spelling Generalizations at Paragraph Level
°°Main Idea/Mainly About
and Rules • Modeled Prosody with °°Details
Connected Text °°Vocabulary
°°Prediction
• Suffixes • Idioms °°Inferencing
Levels °°Conclusion
• Spelling Rules for • Analogies
13–14 ——— ——— Adding Affixes
°°Cause and Effect
• Affix and Root Meanings °°Compare and Contrast
(Grade 3) °°Summarizing
• Prefix Meanings
°°Paraphrasing
°°Perspective
°°Fact vs. Opinion
Levels • Spelling Rules for • Multiple Meaning Words
Adding Affixes
15–16 ——— ——— • Idioms
(Grade 4) • Root Meanings
• Affix and Root Meanings

Levels • Greek Combining • Shades of Meaning

Form Meanings
17–18 ——— ——— • Advanced Analogies
(Grade 5) • Accent Placement
• Greek Combining Forms

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Scope & Sequence: by Skills

AREA OF READING INSTRUCTION AND SKILLS

Comprehension
Automaticity /
Phonological

Vocabulary
Awareness

Structural
Analysis
Phonics

Fluency
GLM —————————————————— LEVEL ——————————————————

• • • • •
Pre-K

LEVEL 1 A Picnic in the Woods

LEVEL 2 A Day at the Beach • • • • •

Kindergarten

LEVEL 3 A Snow Day in the City • • • • •

LEVEL 4 The Amazon Rainforest • • • • •
LEVEL 5 The Scottish Cliffs • • •
LEVEL 6 A Day in Paris • • • •
LEVEL 7 The African Serengeti • • •
Grade 1

LEVEL 8 The South Pole • • • •

LEVEL 9 The Egyptian Desert • • • •
LEVEL 10 An English Garden • • • •
Grade 2

LEVEL 11 The Swiss Alps • • • •

LEVEL 12 A Russian Circus • • • • •
LEVEL 13 The Indian Rainforest • • • •
Grade 3

LEVEL 14 A Japanese Garden • • • •

LEVEL 15 The Great Barrier Reef • • • •
Grade 4

LEVEL 16 A Hawaiian Paradise • • • •

LEVEL 17 A Southwest Fiesta • • • •
Grade 5

LEVEL 18 The Ancient Greek Countryside • • • •

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