Fast ForWord Reading Level 5
Fast ForWord Reading Level 5 software is appropriate for students in upper elementary, middle and high school. It concentrates on enhancing advanced reading comprehension and expanding vocabulary skills.
Fast ForWord to Reading 5 exercises build cognitive skills in the context of essential reading skills including:- Advanced practice in Phonemic Analysis, Spelling and Decoding Vocabulary Comprehension strategies Complex Sentence Construction and Comprehension Passage Construction, Organization and Comprehension
- Builds memory by having students hold words and sentences in working memory while completing or reorganizing sentences and paragraphs. Improves attention by allowing students to selectively focus on critical information while sustaining attention across longer text passages and question sets. Develops processing by enhancing fluency in extracting and integrating meaning from longer text passages. Develops sequencing by enabling the recognition of causal and temporal event sequences in text passages.
What are the Fast ForWord Reading Level 5 exercises like?
The Fast ForWord to Reading 5 product consists of five exercises:- Wood Works Gator Jam Toad Loader Lana's Lanes Quack Splash
Wood Works
Wood Works uses categorization to help build accuracy and fluency in spelling, decoding, and phonemic analysis.
The participant helps the wood worker build the dam by sorting the written or pronounced words into the appropriate phonemic or spelling-based categories.
Gator Jam
Gator Jam uses analogies to help build vocabulary, and to help improve critical thinking and abstract reasoning.
The participant helps the hippo serenade his sweetheart by completing, and then categorizing, the various types of analogies presented in the exercise.
Toad Loader
Toad Loader helps develop accuracy and fluency in recognizing sentence structures and constructing sentences by manipulating grammatical forms and inflections.
The participant helps the toad load his packages by recognizing and constructing sentences that correctly describe pictures.
Lana’s Lanes
Lana’s Lanes helps develop reading comprehension strategies as the participant works with fiction and nonfiction passages that include a wide range of literary structures and devices. After reading a passage, the participant learns to graphically or textually organize information from the passage using a range of different comprehension strategies. These strategies are reinforced as the participant answers comprehension questions about the organized information.
Quack Splash
Quack Splash helps develop skills in constructing and organizing fiction and nonfiction passages, and in understanding and using figurative language.
The participant helps the diving duck build paragraphs by identifying missing words, phrases, and sentences, and by sequencing sentences into paragraphs. The participant then sequences the paragraphs into a passage. After a passage is constructed, the participant answers comprehension questions about that passage.
Quack Splash includes five stories and essays, which increase in complexity and length.
The following scope and sequence explains the tasks involved, the language and reading skills targeted and the cognitive skills developed.
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