Fast ForWord :: FastForWord for Early Primary School

for early primary school

’Early primary school students use both the Fast ForWord Language and Fast ForWord Language to Reading programmes, which comprise Step 1. Sonic Learning supplies both of these programmes in the initial programme package. Following completion of Step 1, participants have the choice of extending their learning development with the Step 2 Fast ForWord to Reading programmes.

Step 1. Build foundational brain skills to optimise students’ learning potential with
Fast ForWord Language. 5 of the 7 games include:

	Sky Gym In Sky Gym, the student identifies and remembers the order of a series of frequency modulated sound sweeps, and indicates the pattern just heard. Sky Gym trains listening accuracy, auditory sequencing, auditory processing speed, auditory memory and attention. These skills are critical for decoding and phonemic awareness which are essential for fluent reading.
	Space Commander Working on a board with rows of coloured shapes, students improve listening accuracy, listening comprehension and the ability to follow instructions. This exercise gradually increases working memory load.
	Moon Ranch A group of airborne animals help students build the phoneme discrimination and listening comprehension skills that help them recognise differing letter sounds, engaging them in a sustained attention exercise.
	Hoop Nut With the help of two astro-nuts, students process sounds and make decisions that help them develop listening accuracy, and the identification and discrimination of phonemes.
	Robo-Dog In this word identification exercise, participants hear a word and need to recall it’s meaning and then identify the matching picture to improve sound processing and word recognition skills.
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Continue Step 1 with Fast ForWord Language to Reading

	Tomb Trek Tomb Trek improves the ability to recognise words, the relationship between letters and sounds, analyse words, make correct distinctions based on individual phonemes and the capacity to hold speech sounds in memory (phonological memory).
	Polar Planet Students improve their ability to recognise words, the relationship between letters and sounds and understand letter patterns (word analysis). Additionally, Polar Planet helps improve the ability to identify and manipulate speech sounds in a quick and efficient manner (phonological fluency) and remain focused on a given task while ignoring distractions and refraining from impulsive behaviour (sustained attention). This exercise also works on visual tracking to strengthen left-to-right reading behaviour.
	Cosmic Reader Cosmic Reader improves the ability to understand successive sentences and derive meaning from a story (listening comprehension). Students are also asked to listen to directions of increasing complexity and length and keep them in memory long enough to follow them. Cosmic Reader also helps build an understanding of the elements of the English language and vocabulary.
	Jumper Gym Students identify and remember the order of a series of frequency modulated sound sweeps, and indicates the pattern just heard. As the student progresses, the working memory load is increased. Sky Gym trains listening accuracy, auditory sequencing, auditory processing speed, auditory memory and attention.
	Paint Match Students build associations between word sounds and written words while also developing working memory skills and verbal retention skills.
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If your child has already completed Step 1 for early primary school, extend them further with Step 2: Target reading and spelling while continuing to improve memory, attention, sequencing and processing speed with Fast ForWord to Reading 1 for early primary school. 5 of the 6 games:

	Bear Bags Students are asked to help Mama Bear sort words into lunch bags of phoneme based categories. Students begin working on initial consonants, then progress to final consonants, short vowels, and long vowels.
	Bedtime Beasties As the elephant reads the sentence, the Beasties under the bed help the student develop sentence comprehension skills by providing choices for the student to complete the sentence.
	Buzz Fly Helps students develop passage comprehension and working memory skills as they listen, read along, and answer questions about the passages. Students use K 2 level fiction and non-fiction passages.
	Magic Rabbit Students build spelling skills and sensitivity to letter sound correspondences by helping the rabbit magician change one word into another, and choosing the correct letter to spell the word.
	Flying Fish With the help of a fishing pelican, students catch the word that matches the target word. This exercise uses the top 200 high frequency words from Francis & Kucera norms and Reading Teacher’s Book of Lists, plus all K 1 grade level Dolch sight words.
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Continue Step 2 with Fast ForWord to Reading 2 for early primary school. 5 of the 6 games:

	Bear Bags: More Lunch Students are asked to help Papa Bear make more lunch by sorting the words into appropriate phoneme based categories. This exercise uses initial consonants, and short vowels to long vowels, using high frequency words.
	Ant Antics Professor Anteater invites students to develop critical reading and sentence comprehension by asking them to match pictures to their descriptive titles.
	Dog Bone Amid the excitement of a game show, students improve listening and reading comprehension as they read pages of texts or graphs and answer comprehensive questions. Uses Grade 1-3 level of fiction and non-fiction passages.
	Fish Frenzy Students develop decoding skills and auditory memory as they catch the fish with the word that displays the target word. This exercise uses the top 400 high frequency words from the Francis & Kucera norms and Reading Teacher’s Book of Lists, plus all K 3 grade level Dolch sight words.
	Leaping Lizards Friendly lizards help students improve sentence comprehension and vocabulary, punctuation and capitalisation skills, as well as word morphology, prefixes and suffixes.
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Continue Step 2 with Fast ForWord to Reading 3 for early primary school.

	Hog Hat Zone In a busy construction zone, this Hog needs help. Paragraphs from classic children’s literature are presented with missing words. Finding the correct missing words requires a high level of morphological complexity while building vocabulary skills.
	Chicken Dog A fine feathered hot dog vendor helps students build phonetics and spelling skills as they see a word presented with missing letters, and must choose the letters that complete the word.
	Book Monkeys A group of monkeys are hanging in the library. As participants help organise dishevelled books, the exercise builds reading comprehension using literal, inferential, and organisational knowledge.
	Scap Cat Amid the trash and treasures of a junkyard, students sort words into linguistic and semantic categories, building the decoding and vocabulary skills necessary for flexible fluent reading.
	Twisted Pictures By picking the sentence that correctly describes an aspect of the picture presented, students develop syntax and vocabulary skills. This exercise incorporates a high level of syntactic complexity for successful completion of the content.

Sonic Learning provides across Australia and to individuals in countries throughout the world.

The health professionals at Sonic Learning are Fast ForWord specialists and have many years of combined experience helping individuals reach their full potential. Sonic Learning provides Fast ForWord in Western Australia, Queensland, South Australia, the Northern Territory and Tasmania. If you would like to discuss Fast ForWord further, or schedule a free online demonstration, please contact our Fast ForWord team.