What’s happening at Lexonic.

The Need for Speed

Lexonik's Senior Regional Trainer Ian Jones talks about automaticity, its role in building reading fluency and rollercoasters! In this blog he explains why learners need to practise at speed to fully develop their literacy skillset.

What Is Reading Fluency and How Do We Achieve It?

Reading fluency relies on automaticity, word recognition and prosody. Its a phrase that we see banded about with great emphasis and importance, becoming an area of focus for Ofsted in recent times, especially in secondary schools. But what actually are the concepts that make up reading fluency and how do we achieve them?

LKMco Impact Evaluation of Prison Programme Pilot

In 2016, Lexonik’s pilot in reform prisons saw significant gains in reading age (up to 65 months), boosting confidence, self-efficacy, and attitudes to education.

How can I improve vocabulary across my school?

A strong school curriculum must prioritise teacher literacy training and a systematic approach to vocabulary teaching, empowering students to understand words independently.

Vocabulary Instruction on Doctor's Orders

A man kicks a snail away for interrupting him, but the snail’s persistence teaches a lesson in resilience—something also crucial for students facing vocabulary challenges.

The Phonics Check

The phonics check helps teachers assess decoding skills, not just sight vocabulary, ensuring early intervention for students at risk of falling behind later.

If students are starting secondary school with a reading age of 6 years, can we please start focusing on the solutions?

Assessed, Identified. Now What?

Lexonik transforms literacy intervention with evidence-based methods. It upskills teachers to explicitly teach reading and vocabulary, boosting student success.

How It All Began – Lexonik Flex

Lexonik Flex offers a flexible, fast-paced programme that enhances reading skills, focusing on phonological awareness, vocabulary, and metacognition for all ages.

Five tips for improving oral language, speed and vocabulary at home

With Covid impacting young children’s language skills, parents and teachers can promote vocabulary growth through techniques like using synonyms, hidden definitions, real-world examples, contrasts, and morphemic analysis.

CAUTION: Long Words Ahead

Ian shares his passion for dissectology and how metacognitive skills, like understanding word prefixes, help unlock new vocabulary, as seen in Lexonik’s programs.

Word stems and why they are important in vocabulary and reading development

At Lexonik, we focus on morphemic analysis—understanding word stems and affixes—to help students decode new words, expand vocabulary, and foster independent learning.