After attending a conference on dyslexia, staff from the Paradise Valley Unified School District decided to approach the problem of the students who were learning English from its cognitive roots. They wanted to help these ELL students build their foundational early reading and cognitive skills in order to improve their reading ability. After an average of five weeks of using the Fast ForWord Language product, the ELL students built their critical early reading and cognitive skills and strengthened their vocabulary, better positioning them to partake in the classroom curriculum.