Description: A series of computer-delivered exercises which build essential reading skills expected of students by the end of grade 1
Skills Developed:
- Phonemic awareness
- Sound - letter correspondence
- Word recognition
- Passage comprehension
- Sentence comprehension
- Spelling
- Semantics
- Grammatical properties
- Conceptual relationships
Exercises: Build and strengthen:
- Working and long-term memory
- Sustained attention
- Auditory and visual processing skills
- Sequencing
See details of skills developed in the FFW Reading Matrix
Schedule:
Students using Fast ForWord to Reading 1 follow one of two intensive schedules:
- 48 minutes each day, five days a week, for 8 to 12 weeks OR
- 90 minutes each day, five days a week, for 4 to 8 weeks
