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Fast ForWord:

Fast ForWord:. What It Is and How It Can Help Your Students. Fast ForWord: Brain Gym. Reading is like a marathon. Before you can do it, you need to train. You would not train for a marathon by repetitively running marathons.

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Fast ForWord:

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  1. Fast ForWord: What It Is and How It Can Help Your Students

  2. Fast ForWord: Brain Gym Reading is like a marathon. Before you can do it, you need to train. You would not train for a marathon by repetitively running marathons. Fast ForWord is a workout for the brain. Students go five days a week, 50-minute sessions, for a total of 250 minutes a week of “working out” their brain.

  3. ? Oral Language • Over 80% of classroom instruction is presented through talking • Language processing, primarily at the level of phonology, is the primary cause of reading and spelling problems

  4. Processing Speech • Students need to distinguish speech sounds correctly • learn the rules of language • associate sounds with letters • Speech sounds can differ by as little as 10 milliseconds • Computers can emphasize differences in sounds

  5. Different Brain Activity in Struggling Readers 5

  6. 100 milliseconds Small Changes in Timing . . .Big Changes in Meaning 6

  7. Normal Speech

  8. Acoustically Modified Speech When acoustic differences are stretched and emphasized, it is easier for students to perceive the differences.

  9. Three Stages 1. Language 2. Language to Reading 3. Reading-3

  10. Language

  11. Language to Reading

  12. Reading-3

  13. Circus Sequence (62%) Phonic Words (99%) Phoneme Identification (38%) Phonic Match (55%) Old MacDonald's Flying Farm (57%) Block Commander (75%) Language Comprehension Builder (97%)

  14. Basics Before Basics After Basics

  15. Fast ForWord... To the Facts • Results will appear in the classroom several weeks after the student completes the program. • Skills from the program must be reinforced after the program is over. • Fast ForWord is supported by research (which can be provided)

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