Fast ForWord to Reading 4 exercises expands reading skills with a focus on applying knowledge of word origins, word forms, sentence structures, and punctuation rules to improve comprehension.

It continues the development of cognitive skills but presented in the context of reading.

Fast ForWord to Reading 4 exercises use exclusive patented technology to help students build cognitive skills in the context of essential reading skills including:

Decoding
Spelling
Vocabulary
Sentence Comprehension
Paragraph Comprehension

Fast ForWord Reading 4 consists of six exercises:

Book Monkeys A library group of monkeys are hanging in the library. As participants help organise disheveled books, the exercise builds reading comprehension using literal, inferential, and organisational knowledge.
Goat Quotes It's time for a lunch break at Mr. Goat’s newsstand. He can be very picky since he only likes to eat papers with sentences that match his headlines, and students must choose the most appropriate paper for him to munch on. This exercise helps build paragraph comprehension and basic syntactic structures of spoken English.
Hoof Beat The giraffe quiz mistress askes the animals in the beauty salon to choose one of four words that best answers a question. Students help the animals select the correct answer. This exercise improves decoding ability and develops vocabulary.
Jitterbug Jukebox The folks in the diner want to dance. Students help select the cool tunes by spelling out the words that are pronounced. This exercise builds and reinforces rules that govern the use of high frequency irregular words.
Lulu’s Laundry Line Students help Lulu and her friends sort the laundry by correctly placing the word or punctuation mark in the displayed paragraph, highlighting general punctuation rules, comma use, and capitalisation.
Stinky Bill’s Billboard Students help Stinky Bill get the missing words back on his billboard by selecting the correct word to fill in the blank spaces. Skills developed include the use of compound words, prefixes, and homophones, while building word knowledge.