Fast ForWord Reading 2
Fast ForWord Reading 2 consists of five exercises and consolidates early reading skills, with a focus on applying phonics and decoding strategies, improving word recognition and understanding the rules for reading comprehension.
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Ant Antics
Professor Anteater invites students to develop critical reading and sentence comprehension by asking them to match pictures to their descriptive titles.
Bear Bags: More Lunch
Students are asked to help Papa Bear make more lunch by sorting the words into the appropriate phoneme-based categories. This exercise uses initial consonants, and short vowels to long vowels, using high frequency decodable words.
Dog Bone
Amid the excitement of a game show, students improve listening and reading comprehension as they read pages of text or graphs and answer comprehension questions. Uses grade 1-3 level of fiction and nonfiction passages.
Fish Frenzy
Students develop decoding skills and auditory memory as they catch the fish with the word that matches the target word. This exercise uses the top 400 high frequency words from the Francis and Kucera norms and Reading Teacher’s Book of Lists, plus all K-3 grade level Dolch sight words.
Leaping Lizards
Friendly Lizards help students improve sentence comprehension and vocabulary. This exercise builds vocabulary, punctuation and capitalisation skills, as well as word morphology, prefixes and suffixes.
Magic Bird
In Magic Bird, the student builds spelling and phonics skills by selecting the correct letters or groups of letters to complete the spellings of spoken words.
Skills targeted by Fast ForWord Reading 2:
Language and reading skills developed:
- Auditory sequencing
- Listening comprehension
- Listening accuracy
- Word analysis
- Following directions
- Phonological memory
- Auditory sequencing
- Vocabulary
- English language conventions.
Cognitive skills developed:
- Auditory and visual spatial working memory
- Sustained and focused attention
- Auditory, visual and cross-modal processing
- Linguistic processing
- Sequencing
- Visual symbol-sound associations from long term memory.
Fast ForWord & ClearFluency
Scope and Sequence Guide
See the skills covered by each Fast ForWord program and the ClearFluency program.
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