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Fast ForWord Language Basics prepares students for the listening and attentional demands of classroom instruction, with a focus on sound sequencing, fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, pattern recognition, and color-shape identification.
Fast ForWord Language Basics improves critical brain processing efficiency in four key areas:
- Improves memory by having the student hold a pair or sequence of sounds in working memory while comparing them and/or identifying their order.
- Improves visual and auditory attention by developing the ability to focus, ignore distractions, and respond quickly when a stimulus changes.
- Strengthens visual processing skills for matching shapes and sensory-motor integration for using the mouse to position shapes.
- Develops sequencing skills through exercises that require identifying and reproducing the order of a two-sound sequence.
As a precursor to our Fast ForWord Language product, Fast ForWord Language Basics also builds computer skills and techniques.
Fast ForWord Language Basics software works by exercising the brain to process more efficiently, the way physical workouts train the body to be more fit and strong.
Four key components of our technology-based intervention work together to create the dramatic changes in brain function required to achieve universal literacy:
- Frequency and IntensityNeuroscience research demonstrates that completing a set of learning tasks in a frequent, intense timeframe accelerates learning
- AdaptivityExercises adapt with each key stroke to individual skill levels and responses, keeping students continuously challenged but not frustrated
- Simultaneous DevelopmentExercises develop major cognitive and reading skills simultaneously to produce lasting improvements in learning
- Timely MotivationTiered rewards are designed to maximize motivation from start to finish.
Scientific Learning Progress Tracker, an accountability tool, provides real-time monitoring of individual and group performance on the Fast ForWord exercises.
Fast ForWord Language Basics Completion History
It provides clear, action-oriented information showing student progress over time, in specific reading and cognitive skills areas. Its one of the reasons why Fast ForWord products have been so successful in helping schools and districts meet state mandates and comply with NCLB.
Teachers can receive automatic emailed reports with specific recommendations for instructional intervention. Administrator reports provide disaggregated data for groups of students, making it easy to monitor progress toward AYP goals.
What is Fast ForWord® Language Basics software?
Fast ForWord Language Basics software is a reading intervention readiness product that helps prepare young children for Fast ForWord Language software.
Who should use Fast ForWord Language Basics software?
Fast ForWord Language Basics software is for elementary education institutions and clinical specialists worldwide whose young students, 4 to 6 years old, are learning the basic skills necessary for language and reading development.
What are the Fast ForWord Language Basics exercises like?
- Inside the Tummy: By matching shapes and colors in the bear's tummy, a student develops precise visual attention skills as well as improving fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
- Flying Saucer: Set deep in outer space, students differentiate between the sounds of a flying saucer to develop listening and sequencing skills.
- Drag Racer: In this drag race, students improve their sustained auditory attention and auditory discrimination skills.
How do I know Fast ForWord Language Basics software is working?
Scientific Learning Progress Tracker, an accountability tool, provides real-time monitoring of individual and group performance on the Fast ForWord exercises.
Teachers can receive automatic emailed reports with specific recommendations for instructional intervention. Administrator reports provide disaggregated data for groups of students, making it easy to monitor progress toward AYP goals.
Why does Fast ForWord Language Basics software work?
Just as physical exercise increases muscle strength and efficiency, Fast ForWord Language Basics software exercises the brain, increasing its ability to learn better and faster. Each exercise targets and develops the processing efficiency needed for successful reading and learning.
How does Fast ForWord Language Basics software work?
Fast ForWord Language Basics software uses proven brain science principles to develop essential learning skills in the four key areas of memory, attention, processing rate, and sequencing. These are the underlying skills required for reading and learning.
The learning principles behind the exercisesfrequency and intensity, adaptivity, simultaneous development, and timely motivationare maximized by state of the art technology that is based on more than 30 years of research on how the brain learns.
- Frequency and IntensityResearch demonstrates that completing a set of learning tasks in a frequent, intensive timeframe accelerates learning.
- AdaptivityExercises adapt with each key stroke to individual skill levels and responses, keeping students continuously challenged but not frustrated.
- Simultaneous DevelopmentExercises develop major cognitive and reading skills simultaneously to produce lasting improvements in learning.
- Timely MotivationTiered rewards are designed to maximize motivation from start to finish.
What are the Technical Requirements for running the software?
View the Technical Specifications (270k PDF). Note: Adobe Reader (PDF viewer) is needed to view this document.
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