Fast ForWord Reading 5

Strengthens Critical Thinking Skills

Fast ForWord to Reading series of exercises focus on advanced reading comprehension and vocabulary skills. It is appropriate for students in upper primary and high school.  It concentrates on enhancing advanced reading comprehension and expanding vocabulary skills.

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: 

  • Advanced practice in Phonemic Analysis, Spelling and Decoding 
  • Vocabulary 
  • Comprehension strategies 
  • Complex Sentence Construction and Comprehension 
  • Passage Construction, Organization and Comprehension

 

 

Fast ForWord Reading 5 consists of five exercises:

 

Gator Jam

A spirited alligator band helps the hippo serenade his sweetheart, while students create the lyrics by completing and then categorising the various types of analogies. This exercise builds vocabulary and improves critical thinking and abstract reasoning.

 

 

Lana’s Lanes

Students are welcomed to Lana's Lanes, a bovine bowling experience, where they learn reading comprehension strategies as they work with fiction and nonfiction passages that include a wide range of literary structures and devices.

 

 

Quack Splash

Students help the diving duck build multiple-paragraph passages and then demonstrate comprehension of the passages by identifying missing words, phrases, and sentences. This exercise develops skills in constructing and organising fiction and nonfiction passages.

 

 

  

Wood Works

The crafty beaver is building a dam and the students assist his efforts by sorting words into the appropriate phonemic or spelling-based categories. This exercise builds accuracy and fluency in spelling, decoding and phonemic analysis. 
 

  

Toad Loader

There are lots of boxes to pack and label, and students help the toad load the boxes by building a sentence that describes an illustration. This exercise develops accuracy and fluency in recognizing sentence structures and constructing sentences.

 

Language & Reading Skills Developed by Fast ForWord Reading 5

  • Phonemic Awareness
  • Vocabulary
  • Spelling
  • Sentence Construction
  • Sentence & paragraph comprehension
  • Multi-paragraph story construction
  • Comprehension strategies
  • Figurative language use
  • Critical thinking
  • Abstract thinking

 

 

Cognitive Skills Developed by Fast ForWord Reading 5

 

 

  • Working & long term memory
  • Selective & sustained attention
  • Language processing
  • Auditory & visual processing
  • Sequencing