Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 emphasizes the link between spoken and written language to guide students to become proficient grade level readers.
Completely redesigned, our new LANGUAGE v2 series includes fun, engaging characters ready to motivate your students to achieve their personal best.
In addition, new built-in supportive tools help struggling students achieve success more quickly. As they build confidence, they will experience faster progress and even better results.
Our Research and Development Teams utilized outcomes from over 50,000 students to ensure these new versions would be even more effective at helping Elementary Special Education students and English Language Learners become better readers and succeed in the classroom.
And with new content and design features, the LANGUAGE v2 series supports a Response to Intervention (RtI) approach.
To accelerate reading progress, Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 develops critical brain processing efficiency in four key areas:
- Builds memory through exercises that task both working and long-term memory.
- Improves attention by developing the ability to focus on tasks and ignore distractions.
- Develops auditory, visual, and linguistic processing of orally presented words, sentences, and stories for meaning and comprehension.
- Develops sequencing skills through exercises that require the use of word order to comprehend complex statements, follow multi-step instructions, and form appropriate responses to a specified sequence of actions.
Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 software works by exercising the brain to process more efficiently, the way physical workouts train the body to be more fit and strong.
Four key components of our technology-based intervention work together to create the dramatic changes in brain function required to achieve universal literacy:
- Frequency and Intensity—Neuroscience research demonstrates that completing a set of learning tasks in a frequent, intense timeframe accelerates learning
- Adaptivity—Exercises adapt with each key stroke to individual skill levels and responses, keeping students continuously challenged but not frustrated
- Simultaneous Development—Exercises develop major cognitive and reading skills simultaneously to produce lasting improvements in learning
- Timely Motivation—Tiered rewards are designed to maximize motivation from start to finish.
Students can achieve, on average, a 1 to 2 year gain in reading skills in 8 to 12 weeks using one of our prescribed protocols:
- 30 minutes each day, five days a week, for 12 to 16 weeks.
- 40 minutes each day, five days a week , for 9 to 13 weeks.
- 50 minutes each day, five days a week, for 6 to 10 weeks.
- 90 minutes each day, five days a week, for 4 to 7 weeks.
Scientific Learning Progress Tracker, an accountability tool, provides real-time monitoring of individual and group performance on the Fast ForWord exercises.
Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 Completion History
It provides clear, action-oriented information showing student progress over time, in specific reading and cognitive skills areas. It’s one of the reasons why Fast ForWord products have been so successful in helping schools and districts meet state mandates and comply with NCLB.
Teachers can receive automatic emailed reports with specific recommendations for instructional intervention. Administrator reports provide disaggregated data for groups of students, making it easy to monitor progress toward AYP goals.
What is Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 software?
Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 software is a reading intervention product that builds foundational reading and language skills to help districts move special needs learners to successful learners in the general classroom.
Who should use Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 software?
Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 software is for elementary education institutions and clinical specialists worldwide whose students are reading two or more years below grade level.
What are the Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 exercises like?
- Polar Planet: Helps students learn to identify phonemes, associate sounds with letters and build visual tracking skills as they build their processing skills.
- Jumper Gym: Helps students learn to discriminate between similar sounds of increasing difficulty, building and strengthening their listening accuracy and auditory sequencing skills.
- Tomb Trek: Encourages students to develop their word analysis skills, as well as phonological awareness and working memory.
What kind of results have students had with Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 software?
Using one of our prescribed protocols, students have achieved, on average, a 1 to 2 year gain in reading skills within 8 to 12 weeks . Longitudinal research shows that the increase in the rate of learning is permanent over time, closing the achievement gap.
In addition, students often exhibit enhanced self-confidence, better communication, greater interest in learning, and improved mental agility and alertness, after working on Fast ForWord products.
How do I know Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 software is working?
Scientific Learning Progress Tracker, an accountability tool, provides real-time monitoring of individual and group performance on the Fast ForWord exercises.
Teachers can receive automatic emailed reports with specific recommendations for instructional intervention. Administrator reports provide disaggregated data for groups of students, making it easy to monitor progress toward AYP goals.
Why does Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 software work?
Just as physical exercise increases muscle strength and efficiency, Fast ForWord Language to Reading software exercises the brain, increasing its ability to learn better and faster. Each exercise targets and develops the processing efficiency needed for successful reading and learning.
How does Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 software work?
Fast ForWord Language to Reading v2 software uses proven brain science principles to develop essential learning skills in the four key areas of memory, attention, processing rate, and sequencing. These are the underlying skills required for reading and learning.
The learning principles behind the exercises—frequency and intensity, adaptivity, simultaneous development, and timely motivation—are maximized by state of the art technology that is based on more than 30 years of research on how the brain learns.
- Frequency and Intensity—Research demonstrates that completing a set of learning tasks in a frequent, intensive timeframe accelerates learning.
- Adaptivity—Exercises adapt with each key stroke to individual skill levels and responses, keeping students continuously challenged but not frustrated.
- Simultaneous Development—Exercises develop major cognitive and reading skills simultaneously to produce lasting improvements in learning.
- Timely Motivation—Tiered rewards are designed to maximize motivation from start to finish.
What are the Technical Requirements for running the software?
View the Technical Specifications (92k PDF). Note: Adobe Reader (PDF viewer) is needed to view this document.
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