Fast ForWord Reading Prep
Fast ForWord Reading Prep builds pre-reading skills, with a focus on letter recognition and naming, phonological awareness, and letter-sound associations.
Fast ForWord Reading Prep software is designed for early literacy development, helping students who are having trouble moving from the spoken word to the written word.
To build a bridge to reading, Fast ForWord Reading Prep develops critical brain processing efficiency in four key areas:
- Builds memory by developing the ability to hold a spoken word in working memory while retrieving picture-concept associations. Improves attention by developing the ability to focus on tasks and ignore distractions. Develops processing of images and sounds quickly enough to discriminate between their differences. Develops sequencing by using positional clues to identify missing letters.
What are the Fast ForWord Reading Prep exercises like?
The Fast ForWord to Reading Prep product consists of six exercises. The exercises work together to develop four primary skill areas, including: phonemic awareness; working memory; and letter-name and letter-sound correspondence. These critical learning and reading skills help build the foundation for learning to read.
These are the exercises:
• Inside the Tummy
• Hungry Tummy
• Packing Pig Goes to Work
• Packing Pig Has Lunch
• Coaster
• Houndini
Inside the Tummy
Inside the Tummy helps develop precise visual attention skills while helping improve fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
In Inside the Tummy, the participant feeds the hungry bear by placing the correct coloured shapes into the corresponding outlines inside the bear’s tummy.
Hungry Tummy
Hungry Tummy helps develop the ability to follow verbal directions, and helps improve listening comprehension and working memory skills.
In Hungry Tummy, the participant follows instructions to identify shapes of various colours and sizes and then feeds those shapes to the bear.
Packing Pig Goes to Work
Packing Pig Goes to Work helps develop letter-name association skills for uppercase and lowercase letters.
In Packing Pig Goes to Work, the participant helps Packing Pig work by listening for the name of a letter and then clicking the matching written letter.
Packing Pig Has Lunch
Packing Pig Has Lunch helps develop letter-name association skills for uppercase and lowercase letters, and helps improve auditory working memory and visual-spatial memory.
In Packing Pig Has Lunch, the participant feeds Packing Pig his lunch by matching the letters to clear the grid of boxes.
Coaster
Coaster helps develop phonemic awareness and letter-sound association skills, while building an initial understanding of the alphabetic principle.
In Coaster, the participant listens for a consonant, and then clicks the coaster car with the written word that starts with that consonant.
Houndini
Houndini helps improve phonemic awareness and basic decoding skills.
In Houndini, the participant helps the magic dog perform magic card tricks by identifying the card that is different from the others.
The following scope and sequence explains the tasks involved, the language and reading skills targeted and the cognitive skills developed.
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