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What is the Fast ForWord © products series
Our reading intervention courses are designed to simultaneously develop language skills and a student's cognitive abilities. Fast ForWord includes several training programs that are individually adaptive and interactive computerized language-learning programs that incorporate the latest neurological research in brain plasticity (the scientific principle that the brain is able to learn at any age). These intensive, computerized programs are also designed to help people increase the rate at which their brains can process auditory information, which then enhances abilities in communication, reading, writing, and spelling.
Fast ForWord Language Series ®
Includes 5 products.
Language Basics (aged 6 and below)
Language (aged 6 to 12)
Literacy (aged 12 to adults)
Language to Reading (aged 6 to 12) and
Literacy Advanced (aged 12 to adults)
The goal of the Fast ForWord Language products is help students or adults strengthen the foundational cognitive, language, and reading skills they need to succeed in the classroom and become better readers and learners.
Fast ForWord builds and/or strengthens:
Foundational Cognitive skills through exercises that demand selective and sustained attention, auditory and spatial memory, auditory and linguistic processing, and the ability to perceive, remember, and reproduce a sequence in response to auditory or linguistic input.
Foundational Language skills through exercises that focus on listening accuracy, auditory analysis, phonology, morphology (word structure), syntax (sentence structure), and semantics.
Foundational Reading skills through exercises that provide practice with phonemic awareness, vocabulary, and listening comprehension.
Fast ForWord Language
Our first course provides the essential foundations of reading.
It builds fundamental cognitive skills of memory, attention, processing
and sequencing, Learning MAPs ©, in the context of key language and
reading skills, including listening accuracy.
It develops phonemic awareness by improving auditory discrimination and
letter and word recognition skills. It helps students identify specific
phonemes.
It improves phonological awareness and language structures.
It enhances vocabulary by helping students differentiate between similar sounding words.
It improves skills in work meaning, oral language, listening comprehension,
and the ability to follow directions. It also develops syntax and morphology
skills.
It fosters fluency and comprehension by developing listening comprehension and the ability to follow directions, while developing memory to store background information.
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Fast ForWord Literacy® (previously known as Middle & High)
This is similar to Fast ForWord Language ®, but with graphics tailored to older students.
The age appropriate contexts build fundamental cognitive skills of memory,
attention, processing and sequencing Learning MAPs ®, in the context
of key reading skills such as phonological fluency and language structures.
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Fast ForWord Language to Reading and Literacy Advanced ®
This builds on the cognitive and language skills addressed in Fast ForWord Language ® and Fast ForWord Literacy ®
It continues to improve the key cognitive skills (Learning MAPs ®) through
exercises focused on auditory recognition, sound-letter comprehension, phoneme
awareness, phonological awareness, beginning word recognition and English
language conventions including left to right tracking skills. It develops
associations between words and their written representations.
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Fast ForWord to Reading Series ®
These provides a sequenced learning environment that advances the key cognitive skills (Learning MAPs) in the context of sequentially appropriate reading skills.
It targets phonics by developing basic spelling patterns, automatic word
recognition, letter-sound correspondences and decoding.
A student will increase their phonemic awareness by developing sensitivity
to letter-sound correspondences.
It continues to expand vocabulary through decoding, synonyms, antonyms,
homophones and automatic word recognition, paragraph comprehension, cause
and effect reasoning and flexible reading. It focuses on syntax and working
memory.
It enhances fluency with sentence comprehension, developing syntax, working
memory, logical reasoning and vocabulary.
It develops comprehension by practicing syntax and working memory skills
with both simple and complex sentences. as well as developing skills such
as reading for meaning, remembering facts, making connections and drawing
inferences.
Currently we offer Fast ForWord to Reading 1 - 5 ®
