10 May2019

How Does SmartLearning Technology Improve the Fast ForWord Intervention Program?

• More engaging, more adaptive, and more motivating: students move more quickly through content they have mastered so they can focus on the skills they need most.
• Built-in interventions and help: the program now automatically helps students work through the most challenging exercises, freeing up teachers and coaches to do what they do best: teach.
• New reports and lesson plans: you’ll be able to pinpoint specific strengths/weaknesses in English language arts, and use new lesson plans that align to classroom instruction!
• Now addresses 5 domains of reading: now with Reading Assistant Plus included in all k-12 subscriptions, Fast ForWord’s 3-step approach covers all domains of reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension).

New Fast ForWord Language and Reading Intervention

• 58 adaptive exercises that target memory, attention, processing, and sequencing skills

• Intensive practice in a wide range of phonics, phonemic awareness, grammar, vocabulary, morphology and reading comprehension skills

• Built-in pre- and post- assessment: Reading Progress Indicator (RPI)

• Comprehensive access to online guided reading tool (Reading Assistant Plus)

• 300+ guided reading passages at a range of reading levels, grades 1–12

• 175+ lesson plans that align to classroom instruction

• Interactive Word Wall activities that preteach academic vocabulary before each ebook passage

• Fluency reports with WCPM and before/after recordings of students reading text aloud

• New online MySciLEARN Help and Toolbox support resources

• Faster progression through content

• Enhanced student motivators: “streaks,” new student-facing reports, progress markers, etc.

• Additional guided reading selections added across genres

• Built-in interventions and direction instruction

• New reports to better pinpoint student skills in English Language Arts (pronouns, plurals, passive voice, etc.)