Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2
Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 builds on the cognitive and language skills addressed in Fast ForWord Language v2. It continues to improve the key cognitive skills (Learning MAPs) through exercises focused on sound-letter comprehension, phonological awareness, beginning word recognition and English language conventions.
Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 is part of the family of products suitable for primary school children.
Completely redesigned, our new LANGUAGE v2 series includes fun, engaging characters ready to motivate your students to achieve their personal best.
In addition, new built-in supportive tools help struggling students achieve success more quickly. As they build confidence, they will experience faster progress and even better results.
To accelerate reading progress, Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 develops critical brain processing efficiency in four key areas:
- Builds memory through exercises that task both working and long-term memory.
- Improves attention by developing the ability to focus on tasks and ignore distractions.
- Develops auditory, visual, and linguistic processing of orally presented words, sentences, and stories for meaning and comprehension.
- Develops sequencing skills through exercises that require the use of word order to comprehend complex statements, follow multi-step instructions, and form appropriate responses to a specified sequence of actions.Individual progress is evaluated and reported in Fast ForWord Progress Tracker.
What to Expect from Fast ForWord Language to Reading
Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 software adapts to individual skill levels and responses, adjusting the learner's content exposure and targeting correct responses approximately 80% of the time, which maintains challenge and motivates success... to get results in as little as 6-12 weeks!
Word Analysis
English Language Conventions
Organisation & Focus
Listening Comprehension
What are the Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 exercises like?
The Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 product consists of five exercises: one sound exercise and four word exercises. The exercises work together to help develop the understanding of basic speech sounds as well as the fundamental cognitive skills essential for learning and reading.The sound exercise presents tonal sweeps using different frequencies, different sequences of multiple sounds, and different time durations. The sound exercise is:
• Jumper Gym
The word exercises present words, either in isolation or within sentences, with various levels of linguistic complexity. In some instances, the speech sounds have been digitally altered using patented methods (including selective intensity increases) to provide enhanced learning opportunities. The participant also works on graphemes, the letters that represent phonemes, and on visual tracking to strengthen left-to-right reading patterns. The four word exercises are:
• Paint Match
• Polar Planet
• Tomb Trek
• Cosmic Reader
Jumper Gym
Jumper Gym helps improve the ability to distinguish differences between sounds, the ability to accurately identify three or more sounds in a series (advanced listening accuracy), and the ability to recognize and remember the order in which a series of sounds is presented (auditory sequencing). The object of Jumper Gym is to help Tumbalina the gymnast perform tumbling tricks by correctly identifying sequences of sound sweeps.
Paint Match
Paint Match helps improve the ability to recognize words, the ability to recognize the relationship between letters and sounds, and the ability to understand letter patterns (word analysis). It also helps improve the ability to make correct distinctions based on individual phonemes (phonological accuracy). Paint Match displays paint tubes in groups of four, eight, sixteen, and twenty-four. Each paint tube has a word associated with it. The object of Paint Match is to match all the words into pairs using the fewest clicks.
Polar Planet
Polar Planet helps improve the ability to recognize words, the ability to recognize the relationship between letters and sounds, and the ability to understand letter patterns (word analysis). Additionally, Polar Planet helps improve the ability to identify and manipulate speech sounds in a quick and efficient manner (phonological fluency), and the ability to remain focused on a given task while ignoring distractions and refraining from impulsive behavior (sustained attention). The participant also works on visual tracking to strengthen left-to-right reading behavior. The object of Polar Planet is to identify a pronounced target word when presented in a series of pronounced and written words.
Tomb Trek
Tomb Trek helps improve the ability to recognize words, the ability to recognize the relationship between letters and sounds, and the ability to understand letter patterns (word analysis). Tomb Trek also helps improve the ability to make correct distinctions based on individual phonemes (phonological accuracy), and the capacity for holding speech sounds in memory (phonological memory). The object of Tomb Trek is to identify a pronounced target word when presented in a sequence of two pronounced and written words.
Cosmic Reader
Cosmic Reader helps improve the ability to understand successive sentences and derive meaning from a story (listening comprehension). It helps improve the ability to listen to spoken directions of increasing length and complexity, comprehend them, and keep them in memory long enough to plan and carry out the required action (following directions). Cosmic Reader also helps build an understanding of the elements of the English language, including proper word order, syntax, prefixes and suffixes, plurals, and subject-verb agreement (English language conventions), and helps build knowledge of the phonological structure and meaning of words (vocabulary). The object of Cosmic Reader is to listen to a story and then answer questions and follow instructions.The following scope and sequence explains the tasks involved, the language and reading skills targeted and the cognitive skills developed.
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