What is Fast ForWord Reading Comprehension?
These resources accelerate Reading Comprehension by combining language, cognitive and reading skills with higher comprehension tasks in a personalised and adaptive way.
They are suitable for Secondary Students (as well as Middle/High school and Adults.
Five exercises focus on various aspects of sentence and passage comprehension, with an emphasis on grammar, answering literal and inferential questions, and working with reference materials including diagrams, tables etc..
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Exercise Summaries
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Concentrated Focus
on reading comprehension and the sub-skills that build it, from fluent decoding and grammar skills, to comprehension strategies.
Practice
in reading for understanding with a wide range of texts, including fiction, expository prose, tables, instructions, diagrams, and flowcharts.
Mature Look and Feel
age-appropriate graphics for secondary learners and motivational features to keep students engaged and learning.
Safe Learning
A learning environment, where students can take chances without fear of judgment by their peers.
Personalized learning
Adaptivity and responsiveness, Individual students get the content they need at the right level of challenge and just-in-time supports for independent work.
Art Walk
Students develop their vocabulary, critical reading, and sentence comprehension skills by building sentences with a variety of grammatical structures.
Key Skills: Visual analysis and sentence building.
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Cognobot
Students develop their paragraph comprehension and non-standard text comprehension skills by answering literal and inferential questions about fiction and nonfiction texts, cause-and-effect, relationship, tables, instructions, and schedules.
Key Skills: Graphics review and inferences.
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Datastream
Students develop their paragraph comprehension skills by reading fiction and nonfiction texts, using strategies to capture and organize the information, and answering literal and inferential questions using graphic organisers, summaries, tables, instructions, and schedules.
Key Skills: Comprehension strategies and concept webs.
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Print Shop
Students develop their sentence comprehension and critical reading skills by reading one or more sentences and then selecting a paraphrase that captures all of the same information.
Key skill – Paraphrasing
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Road Trip
Students develop their vocabulary and sentence comprehension skills by reading incomplete sentences and choosing the missing word.
Key skill – “Near Misses”, Homophones etc
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Frequently Asked Questions
Fast ForWord’s content adapts to match school curricula and state standards. Between the digital games and lesson library, you can find great resources and inspiration for developing reading comprehension.
Who is it for?
Different learner types and intervention levels have different needs. Fast ForWord offers a personalised and differentiated pathway for each learner to maximise achievement potential.
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Fast ForWord targets the reading skills of phonemic awareness, phonics, the alphabet, vocabulary, grammar, fluency, and comprehension.
