
"It's amazing how much easier listening,
reading and language are for him now."
  - Mel R., parent of 3rd grader with CAPD
Fast ForWord Reading Level 5
Reading Comprehension & Critical Thinking
Fast ForWord Reading Level 5 works on advanced reading comprehension and vocabulary skills. It is appropriate for students in middle and high school and for adults. It concentrates on enhancing advanced reading comprehension and expanding vocabulary skills. Fast ForWord Reading Level 5 exercises include:
- Advanced practice in phonemic analysis, spelling and decoding
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension strategies
- Complex sentence construction and comprehension
- Passage construction, organization and comprehension including critical thinking while reading
Fast ForWord Reading Level 5 has five exercises:
Gator JamA spirited alligator band helps the hippo serenade his sweetheart, while students create the lyrics by completing and then categorizing the various types of analogies. This exercise builds vocabulary and improves critical thinking and abstract reasoning. |
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Lana’s Lanes |
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Quack SplashStudents help the diving duck build multiple-paragraph passages and then demonstrate comprehension of the passages by identifying missing words, phrases, and sentences. This exercise develops skills in constructing and organizing fiction and nonfiction passages. |
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Wood WorksThe crafty beaver is building a dam and the students assist his efforts by sorting words into the appropriate phonemic or spelling-based categories. This exercise builds accuracy and fluency in spelling, decoding and phonemic analysis. |
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Toad LoaderThere are lots of boxes to pack and label, and students help the toad load the boxes by building a sentence that describes an illustration. This exercise develops accuracy and fluency in recognizing sentence structures and constructing sentences. |
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Language and Reading Skills Developed by Fast ForWord Reading 5:
- Phonemic awareness
- Vocabulary
- Spelling
- Sentence construction
- Sentence & paragraph comprehension
- Multi-paragraph story construction
- Comprehension strategies
- Figurative language use
- Critical thinking
- Abstract thinking
Cognitive Skills Developed by Fast ForWord Reading Level 5:
- Working and long term memory
- Selective and sustained attention
- Language processing
- Auditory and visual processing
- Sequencing









