While the main theme of Fast ForWord Reading Level 2 is to strengthen reading fluency, it has exercises that start to develop reading comprehension.

Fast ForWord to Reading 2 exercises consolidate early reading skills with a focus on applying phonics and decoding strategies, improving word recognition, and understanding the rules for reading comprehension. It also has vocabulary, spelling, syntax and language structure exercises to improve word reading and comprehension for easily decodable words and high frequency words.

Fast ForWord To Reading Level 2 consists of six exercises:

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 & 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 capitalization skills, as well as word morphology, prefixes and suffixes.
Magic Bird The magic bird presents words with missing beginnings and ends. Students select the missing parts from the options shown by the magician. The exercises develop spelling and sound-letter correspondence.

Language and Reading Skills Developed by Fast ForWord Reading Level 2:

Auditory Sequencing
Listening Comprehension
Listening Accuracy
Word Analysis
Following Directions
Phonological Memory
Vocabulary
English language conventions

Cognitive Skills Developed by Fast ForWord Reading Level 2:

Auditory & visual spatial working memory
Sustained and focused attention
Auditory, visual & cross-modal processing
Linguistic processing
Sequencing
Visual symbol-sound associations from long term memory

Fast ForWord Reading Level 2

Easier Decoding, Better Reading Comprehension

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 & 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 capitalization skills, as well as word morphology, prefixes and suffixes.

Magic Bird The magic bird presents words with missing beginnings and ends. Students select the missing parts from the options shown by the magician. The exercises develop spelling and sound-letter correspondence.

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 & 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 capitalization skills, as well as word morphology, prefixes and suffixes.

Magic Bird

The magic bird presents words with missing beginnings and ends. Students select the missing parts from the options shown by the magician. The exercises develop spelling and sound-letter correspondence.