Science of Reading • JK–5 • Powered by Lexia®
Lexia® Core5® is the reading program proven in 20,000 schools. Get it at home, with a Radical reading expert as your guide. Just 10–20 minutes a day.
3.7 million kids learned with Lexia last year · Works for over 90% of students · Backed by 20 gold-standard studies
Born to Speak. Wired to REad.
Every child is born to talk. A reading brain must be built — one connection at a time, in each child's own order. Ontario schools now teach reading the right way. But with 25 kids and one teacher, the math for mastery doesn't work. That's the gap Radical fills.
Every child can master reading. They just need the right explicit teaching for them.
No two children build reading mastery in the same way, or at the same speed.
Compound interest
Early wins snowball. Strong readers read more, learn faster, pull ahead.
The Research-Proven tool
Used in leading schools for years. Radical brings it home.
Developed through Johns Hopkins and Boston Children’s Hospital, Lexia is the world’s leading program built on the Science of Reading. It finds your child's exact level on day one and adapts every session — never bored, never overwhelmed — building each skill until it's locked in. Schools have had it for years. Now your family can.
Always at their exact level
Data-driven precision
Flags wobbles early and fixes them
Lexia Core5 Facts
Schools use Lexia Core5
Lexia Earns the Top Evidence Rating
The Proven Gold Standard
Lexia is named in the OHRC R2R Inquiry
You shouldn’t have to guess how their reading is really going.
With Lexia + Radical, you don’t.
As your child systematically builds skills, Lexia sends us their data. A Radical expert keeps careful watch, and delivers personalized help if momentum dips. Every wobble is fixed before it grows into a gap. Every skill is mastered.
Teachers are heros, but in a classroom of 25:1, no teacher can deliver this kind of exacting individual attention that builds mastery for all.
“We complete what the classroom starts.”
Lark Barker, Director of Education
The Plan
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Lexia + Radical
Radical's Director of Education, Lark Barker, helped shape Ontario's Right to Read movement — a decade spent changing how schools teach reading. Radical is how she completes that work: one child at a time, with Lexia at your kitchen table.
—Lark Barker, Director of Education
Praise doesn't build confidence. Skill does. Build the skill; the feeling follows.
When the friction disappears, the love of reading appears.
Proof, Not Hope
You see the progress in the data — and in their confidence too.
What we want for every child
Now
And for a lifetime
A child who reads with ease reads more — and every book lifts the next. Confidence grows, subjects open up, and the slope of their whole education tilts upward. REading that never quite clicks quietly caps what a child will try. Early mastery raises the ceiling on everything that comes after.
Born to Speak. Wired to REad.
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