If you would like more information on Fast ForWord to Reading 5, please contact us and we will send you any information you require.
If you would like more information on this product, please contact us and we will send you any information you require.
Fast ForWord to Reading 5 software is a computer-based series of exercises that focuses on advanced reading comprehension and vocabulary skills. It is appropriate for students in upper elementary, middle and high school, and is designed to exercise the skills identified in the literacy and language arts content standards for 5th grade.
Based on research of how the brain learns, Fast ForWord to Reading 5 exercises use exclusive patented technology to help students build cognitive skills in the context of essential reading skills including:
Teachers work with participants who are struggling with reading and need to develop the cognitive and language skills necessary to become better readers. Fast ForWord to Reading 5 consists of six exercises, which provide practice with the essential skills for learning to read.
This product focuses on the five essential components of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, reading fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.
This software is a great follow-up to Fast ForWord to Reading 4 as it continues to develop the essential cognitive skills of memory, attention, processing and sequencing, or Learning MAPS, which are critically important prerequisites for successful reading.
Fast ForWord is a life-changing intervention that produces a lasting effect on learning by developing and strengthening the essential cognitive skills we call Learning MAPS.
Examples in Fast ForWord to Reading Prep include:
MEMORY Enables you to hold a spoken word in working memory while retrieving picture-concept associations
ATTENTION Enhances the ability to sustain focus on multiple tasks and ignore distractions
PROCESSING Allows the student to analyze images and distinguish sounds quickly enough to discriminate their differences
SEQUENCING Uses positional cues to identify a missing letter
This product helps the student develop phonemic awareness, phonics, alphabet, capitals, colour, shape and sizes and fine motor skills.
It also simultaneously helps the student improve cognitive skills required to read: memory, attention, processing and sequencing.
The Fast ForWord to Reading 5 product consists of five exercises. These exercises focus on skills that correlate to national reading standards that should be acquired by students.
The Fast ForWord Family of Products allow teachers to take advantage of the F.A.S.T. Power Learning Formula and accelerate the student’s learning.
There is a choice of protocols that can be followed, in school or at home. Each day’s participation time can be divided into multiple sessions.
| 30 Minute | 40 Minute | 50 Minute | 75 Minute | 90 Minute |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Three 10 minute exercises | Four 10 minute exercises | Three 10 minute exercises | Five 15 minute exercises | Five 15minute exercises |
| 5 days/week | 5 days/week | 5 days/week | 5 days/week | 5 days/week |
| 12 to 16 Weeks | 9 to 13 Weeks | 6 to 10 Weeks | 5 to 8 Weeks | 4 to 7 Weeks |
Neuroscience research confirms the importance of frequency and intensity of activity to build and strengthen cognitive skills. Therefore, adherence to Fast ForWord product protocol is essential to delivering good results.
A consistent daily routine that allows for intense repetition will maximize the benefits of the exercises. The participant may take breaks between exercises, but not while an exercise is open.
The students are motivated through the use of points charts, immediate feedback, extensive progress reports and the teacher’s involvement.
The Fast ForWord family of products is based on over 30 years of neuroscience research. Its patented technology rewires the brain through a series of computer exercises that build learning capacity in all students allowing them to learn and read effectively. The Fast ForWord to Reading Series builds and strengthens the essential foundational cognitive skills within the context of reading activities.
Fast ForWord to Reading 4 is the fifth product in the Fast ForWord Reading Series. It is taken as appropriate for the student’s reading proficiency.
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, phonological awareness and language structures
After completing this product a student can move onto Fast ForWord Reading 5.
Fast ForWord Progress Tracker, allows teachers to monitor each student’s progress individually. Teachers can view progress charts (like the one displayed) detailed error reports that highlight priority areas as well as skills based summaries. Also teachers can see if the student in complying with the programme. We show exactly what work a student does, for how long, on what day and what is their points/participation.
We provide these and other online data-analysis product that displays longitudinal performance reports for a comprehensive participant progress review. Fast ForWord Progress Tracker also shows:
To help better evaluate student gains, Reading Progress Indicator allows teachers rapidly measure the effects of the Fast ForWord® family of reading intervention products.
Reading Progress Indicator is a valid reading assessment that is easy and economical to administer throughout the school year. In addition, Reading Progress Indicator is correlated to internationally recognize normed assessments, including the Woodcock-Johnson® Tests of Reading Achievement, to accurately reflect student progress.
It provides teachers with a clear picture of reading progress in terms of grade equivalents and percentile scores.
Gain the ability to: QUICKLY ASSESS FOUR KEY SKILL AREAS:
We provide full training to education professionals. This will cover full product knowledge including analysis tools, background on reading and learning skill development and continual professional updates. The courses are held in our centres, at your school and on-line. See www.nnnnmn.com for more details.
We provide Fast ForWord Products for use in schools, clinics and at home use. All use of the Fast ForWord Family of Products must be supervised by a Certified Provider. Please contact us directly or one of our providers listed here: (waiting on url)
The Fast ForWord family of products have been validated in over 100 research projects and the science behind the products have been reviewed in over 6,000 peer review papers. Please see out research section for further information and if you would like a copy of our research book please email us on research @ neuronlearning.com
We provide learning aides including product manuals, intervention activities, training courses, and if you need help, we provide the following resources: phone support, email support, online training and on-site or at our centres depending on your requirements.
Fast ForWord Gateway Edition runs on Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Professional, and Macintosh OSX 10.2, 10.3, and 10.4. A complete specifications list can be found on the web at www.scilearn.com/techspec.
The price of the products and related services will vary depending on the provider, the products used, the protocol followed and the services provided. Please contact us with your requirements via email to consult @ neuronlearning.com
Based on more than 30 years of neuroscience research, Scientific Learning’s Fast ForWord family of reading intervention products uses patented technology to target the cognitive skills required to master language and reading. These foundational skills are widely recognized as the keys to all learning. Each product’s interactive exercises integrate proprietary software and Internet technology to create an optimal learning environment that adapts to the level of each student. Products are continuously updated to reflect improvements in learning methods and technical changes.
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