Fast Forward reading program

Fast ForWord helps K-12 reading and learning.

 - #1 ranked program in large Nevada DOE study.
 - Research-based & validated software, with teacher support.

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Fast ForWord Literacy

Cognitive & Learning Software For Adolescents and Adults

Fast ForWord Literacy software uses the same science and algorithms as Fast ForWord Language, but presents a cool, space age theme that is more engaging for adolescents and adults. It develops processing and language skills that give students the solid foundation they need to become better readers and learners. Skills include:

  • Auditory discrimination -- required for effortless decoding
  • Language structures -- for accurate comprehension
  • Working memory -- to retain what is read and heard
  • Listening comprehension -- to develop metacognition
  • Phonological fluency -- automatic decoding required for reading comprehension

Fast Forward Literacy moves middle and high school students toward grade level reading skills, with these five exercises:

Galaxy Goal

The student helps the soccer player kick goals on the outer space soccer pitch. This exercise improves identification and discrimination of syllables that differ by an individual phoneme, increasing a student’s phonological fluency and listening accuracy.

 

Lunar Tunes

Students persuade the space musician to drop from the ceiling of the auditorium and play for the audience by matching spoken words in increasingly complex grids of speakers. This exercise improves the student’s ability to recognize spoken words by using auditory and visual/spatial working memory to locate matching syllables.


  

Space Racer

The rider on the space cycle moves faster and faster as the student correctly identifies the correct sequence of multiple sound sweeps. This exercise improves the speed at which the student identifies and understands rapid, successive changes in sound (listening accuracy), and improves the student’s ability to hold sounds in memory.


  

Spin Master

As the space DJ spins the discs on the turntable, students attempt to identify identical sounds. This phonological fluency exercise increases in difficulty across three dimensions: synthetic speech emphasis, presentation rate, phoneme discrimination.


 

  


Stellar Stories

Students follow spoken directions and also listen to descriptions of activities and events displayed in pictures on their screens. They then select the picture that correctly illustrates the description. This exercise improves skills in listening comprehension, English language conventions, and following directions through a combination of increasingly complex activities.


  


Language & Reading Skills Developed by Fast ForWord Literacy
  • Listening accuracy required to decode effortlessly
  • Auditory sequencing
  • Listening comprehension
  • Phonological memory, accuracy and fluency
  • Vocabulary and English language conventions

 

Cognitive Skills Developed by Fast ForWord Literacy
  • Working memory & visual symbol -- sound associations from long term memory
  • Retrieval from long term memory
  • Sustained and focused attention
  • Auditory processing of tonal sweeps
  • Auditory & visual -- spatial working memory
  • Sequencing ability of rapidly presented sound pairs
  • Auditory & linguistic processing at word level
  • Phonological memory