This is a sample parent/teacher presentation on the Fast ForWord products.

1. This is a sample parent/teacher presentation on the Fast ForWord products. Some slides require minimal customization for your audience. Scroll through the slides and use the ones you want; delete the rest! DELETE THIS SLIDE BEFORE PRESENTING.

2. Accelerating Students’ Learning Through Brain Fitness Fit Brains Learn Better Name, School Using Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant Expanded Edition

3. Brain Fitness Coherent Curriculum Students Prepared to Learn Good Teaching Strategies

4. Fast ForWord Helps Create Fit Brains • SLc’s research confirmed the concept of lifelong brain plasticity – that the brain can reinvent and reconfigure itself throughout life. • Just as exercise promotes fitness, exercising our brain improves brain fitness in the areas of memory, attention, processing and sequencing. • Brain fitness develops a brain to better capture, process and retain proven instruction efficiently and effectively.

5. How the Brain Learns

6. Learning Foundations

7. Fit Brains and Scientific Learning • 1-2 years’ gain in as little as 8-12 weeks • Targeted individualized intervention • Accelerated academic performance with proven results • Precise monitoring of performance to create unique learning paths for each student

8. What Can Teachers Expect? • Increased memory, attention, processing and sequencing skills • Improved reading abilities • Improved listening skills and ability to follow directions • Increased engagement in classroom discussions • A new excitement towards learning • Increased self-esteem • Better academic performance

9. How Does Fast ForWordDo This? • Frequency & Intensity • Adaptivity • Simultaneous Development • Timely Motivation • Neuroscience research tells us these are the elements of a successful • program to create new neural networks and build learning capacity.

10. Scientific Learning Products Reading Assistant Fast ForWord Reading Series Fast ForWord Language Series Fast ForWord Literacy Series

11. Fast ForWord Language v2 Develops the following foundational learning skills: • Listening Accuracy • Auditory Sequencing • Auditory Word Recognition • Listening Comprehension

12. Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 Focuses on helping participants make the link between spoken words and reading: • Advanced Listening Accuracy • Advanced Auditory Sequencing • Word Analysis • Listening Comprehension • English Language Conventions • Following Directions

13. Fast ForWord LITERACY • LITERACY - moves middle and high school students toward grade level reading skills, with a focus on listening accuracy, phonological awareness, and language structures. • LITERACY Advanced - strengthens processing efficiency so students can establish a foundation for learning.

14. Fast ForWord READING Our READING Series products increase processing efficiency and build critical reading skills: • Phonemic Awareness • Phonics • Decoding • • Vocabulary • Syntax • Grammar • Spelling

15. Demonstration

16. Schedule • [Present sample schedule and directions here].

17. What Can Parents Do To Help? • Ensure your child attends school as much as possible during product training • Ask your child about their work on the products • Review reports from the coach or teacher • Celebrate successes!

18. What Can Teachers Do To help? • Ensure your students attend their sessions! • Stay involved • Recognize achievements: praise, praise, praise • Share changes with the Fast ForWord Coordinator

19. Thank You! We accelerate learning by applying proven research on how the brain learns. • At Scientific Learning, our focus is to increase student achievement as quickly as possible. • Over 200 research studies on all types of learners • Nearly 3,000,000 products used to date • Protected by over 55 patents • Used in over 40 countries around the world Fit Brains Learn Better For More Information Visit Scientific Learning’s Web site www.ScientificLearning.com