Fast ForWord Literacy Advanced
Fast ForWord Literacy Advanced software is designed to appeal to teenagers while strengthening their processing efficiency so they can establish a foundation for learning.
Fast ForWord to Literacy Advanced is the second product in the Fast ForWord product sequence for the secondary and adult segment. It is taken after the Fast ForWord to Literacy product and prior to Fast ForWord to Reading Series. To accelerate reading progress, Fast ForWord Literacy Advanced software develops critical brain processing efficiency in four key areas:- Builds memory skills through exercises that task both working and long-term memory. Improves concentration and the ability to focus attention and ignore distractions through highly demanding attention tasks. Strengthens auditory, visual and linguistic processing of orally presented words, sentences and stories for meaning and comprehension. Develops sequencing through exercises that require utilization of word order to comprehend complex statements and multi-step instructions, and then requires following a specified sequence of actions in response.
Using graphics, characters, and themes that are appealing to today’s adolescent, this product provides advanced grammatical structures, places increased demand on listening for comprehension tasks and advances student vocabulary, including terms from math and science.
Product features support students in achieving rapid success, often without any additional intervention. Some of these include introductory trials with visual-help, a vocabulary tool that allows for pre-learning words and concepts. Individual progress is evaluated and reported in Fast ForWord Progress Tracker.
What are the Fast ForWord Literacy Advanced exercises like?
The Fast ForWord Literacy Advanced 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. This is the sound exercise:
• Sky Rider
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. These are the four word exercises:
• Laser Match
• Meteor Ball
• Lunar Leap
• Galaxy Theater
Sky Rider
Sky Rider 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 Sky Rider is to ride the sky board as skillfully as possible by correctly indentifying sequences of sound sweeps.
Laser Match
Laser Match helps improve the ability to recognize words, the ability to identify multi-syllabic 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).
Laser Match displays monitors in groups of four, eight, and sixteen. Each monitor has a word associated with it.
The object of Laser Match is to match all the words into pairs using the fewest clicks.
Meteor Ball
Meteor Ball helps improve the ability to recognize words, the ability to identify multi-syllabic words, the ability to recognize the relationship between letters and sounds, and the ability to understand letter patterns (word analysis).
Additionally, Meteor Ball 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 Meteor Ball is to identify a pronounced target word when presented in a series of pronounced and written words.
Lunar Leap
Lunar Leap helps improve the ability to recognize words, the ability to identify multi-syllabic words, the ability to recognize the relationship between letters and sounds, and the ability to understand letter patterns (word analysis). Lunar Leap 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 Lunar Leap is to identify a pronounced target word when presented in a sequence of two pronounced and written words.
Galaxy Theater
Galaxy Theater 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, to comprehend the directions, and to hold them in memory long enough to plan and carry out the required action (following directions).
Galaxy Theater 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 Galaxy Theater 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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