Fast ForWord Reading 1
Fast ForWord Reading 1 consists of five exercises designed to build critical early reading skills, with an emphasis on phonemic awareness, early decoding skills, vocabulary knowledge and skills, and motivation for reading.
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Bedtime Beasties
As mama elephant reads the sentence, the Beasties under the bed help the student develop sentence comprehension skills by providing choices for the student to complete the sentence.
Bear Bags
Students are asked to help Mama Bear sort words into lunch bags of phoneme-based categories. Students begin working on initial consonants, then progress to final consonants, short vowels, and long vowels.
Buzz Fly
Helps students develop passage comprehension and working memory skills as they listen, read along, and answer questions about the passages. Students use K-2 level fiction and nonfiction passages.
Flying Fish
With the help of a fishing pelican, students catch the word that matches the target word. This exercise uses the top 200 high frequency words from the Francis and Kucera norms and Reading Teacher’s Book of Lists, plus all K-1 grade-level Dolch sight words.
Quail Mail
The postman delivers words that are presented in text and spoken. Students identify the correct letterbox for the postman from the categories shown. The exercises build vocabulary and explore different conceptual relationships.
Magic Rabbit
In Magic Rabbit, the student builds spelling and phonics skills by selecting the correct letters to complete the spellings of spoken words.
Skills targeted by Fast ForWord Reading I:
Language and reading skills developed by Fast ForWord Reading 1:
- Decoding
- Phonics
- Phonemic awareness
- Vocabulary
- Sight-word identification
- Letter-sound correspondence
- Sentence comprehension
- Paragraph comprehension
Cognitive skills developed by Fast ForWord Reading 1:
- Working and long term memory
- Focused attention
- Sustained attention
- Auditory and visual processing
- Sequencing
Fast ForWord & ClearFluency
Scope and Sequence Guide
See the skills covered by each Fast ForWord program and the ClearFluency program.
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