Fast ForWord to Reading: Design and Content

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Fast ForWord to Reading Design and Content
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Cognitive Skills The Foundation for Reading
Memory Attention Processing Sequencing
LEARNING MAPS
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The Fast ForWord to Reading Series
Applying neuroscience-based learning principles
to build critical cognitive skills in the context
of reading tasks.
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MAPs

• Phonological Awareness
• Decoding Spelling
• Fluency
• Vocabulary
• Sentence Comprehension
• Passage Comprehension

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Phonological Awareness Exercises

• Goal Build awareness of the sound-structure of
  words, and provide a basis for phonics.
• Tasks
• Odd-one-out (Houndini)
• Sort by phoneme (Bear Bags, Bear Bags More
  Lunch, Scrap Cat, Wood Works)
• Matching (Canine Crew)
• QA (Hoof Beat)

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Phonological Awareness Exercises

• Content
• Structural features were the primary basis for
  selecting PA words.
• e.g. Most of the stimuli for Bear Bags are
  regularly spelled CVCs such as bug, red, web,
  sip, hide, jeep.
• Graded word lists were consulted to ensure the
  familiarity of most words.
• Note All Reading series PA exercises present
  words in written form to reinforce the alphabetic
  principle.

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Phonological Awareness Exercises
Reading Prep Houndini
Listen to the four words that go with these
pictures and select the word that with a
different beginning (or ending, or vowel).
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Phonological Awareness Exercises
Reading 5 Wood Works
Read a word and phonetically analyze it to sort
it into the correct sound bin (marked with
dictionary phonetic symbol).
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MAPs Phonological Awareness
Reading Prep Houndini
Processing and Sequencing
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MAPs Phonological Awareness
Reading 1 Bear Bags
Working Memory, Processing, Sequencing --
Phonemic Awareness, Letter-Sound Associations
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Decoding/Spelling Exercises

• Goal Map speech sounds to letters and spelling
  patterns, for fast accurate word recognition.
• Tasks
• Phoneme-letter match (Coaster)
• Decodable text (Ant Antics)
• Spelling cloze (Magic Bird, Magic Rabbit, Chicken
  Dog)
• Modified dictation (Jitterbug Jukebox)
• Sort by spelling pattern (Wood Works)
• QA (Hoof Beat)

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Decoding/Spelling Exercises

• Content
• Structural features were the primary basis for
  selecting words for the Decoding/Spelling
  exercises (e.g., words with targeted spelling
  patterns).
• Graded word lists were used as one way to control
  the difficulty
• e.g., Wood Works stimuli
• Easier levels 4th-5th grade vocabulary
• Harder levels 5th-6th grade academic

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Decoding/Spelling Exercises
Reading 4 Jitterbug Jukebox
Spell each word by selecting letters in the
correct order from a principled array including
phonological and visual foils
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Decoding/Spelling Exercises
Reading 2 Ant Antics (comprehension decoding)
Independently read short sentences based on a
small set of common, decodable words, to select
the correct caption.
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MAPs Decoding/Spelling
Reading Prep Packing Pig Goes to Work
Working Memory Long-term Memory - Letter
recognition and naming
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MAPs Decoding/Spelling
Reading 1 Magic Rabbit
Memory and Sequencing Phonics, Decoding,
Vocabulary
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Fluency Exercises

• Goal Build automaticity in working with sounds,
  spelling patterns, and sight words, so that
  readers have more attention to focus on
  comprehension.
• Tasks
• Word ID (Flying Fish, Fish Frenzy)
• Speed rounds within exercises (Bear Bags, Bear
  Bags More Lunch, Magic Bird, Magic Rabbit, Quail
  Mail, Wood Works)
• Read/spell high frequency words (Chicken Dog,
  Jitterbug Jukebox, Flying Fish, Fish Frenzy,
  Leaping Lizards)

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Fluency Exercises

• Content
• High frequency word lists were used to select
  the highest utility sight words.
• e.g., Flying Fish stimuli
• Easiest set the, of, and, you
• Harder set ask, need, why, because
• In general, high frequency words are acquired
  early, so additional controls for vocabulary
  level were not needed.
• Kucera Francis, Dolch lists, the Reading
  Teachers Book of Lists

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Sight Word/Fluency Exercises
Reading 2 Fish Frenzy
Listen to a word and select the matching written
word from a stream of similar words.
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Sight Word/Fluency Exercises
Reading 1 Bear Bags (PA Fluency)
Working as quickly as possible without making
mistakes, sort words into the correct sound
categories.
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MAPs Fluency
Reading 1 Flying Fish
Attention Processing (speed left-to-right
scanning) -- Phonics, Letter-Sound Associations,
Vocabulary
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Vocabulary Exercises

• Goal build vocabulary skills (e.g., using
  context) while building broader and deeper
  vocabulary knowledge.
• Tasks
• Sort by semantics (Quail Mail, Scrap Cat)
• Match by semantics (Canine Crew)
• Use context to define (Book Monkeys, Book
  Monkeys Book Two, Quack Splash)
• Cloze task (Stinky Bills Billboard, Leaping
  Lizards, Toad Loader)
• QA (Hoof Beat)

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Vocabulary Exercises

• Content
• The design of each exercise was the primary
  consideration in selecting vocabulary words.
• e.g. Words used in Quail Mail and Scrap Cat fit
  the semantic categories covered. Words in Gator
  Jam cover 27 Greek Latin morphemes widely used
  in English.
• Graded word lists were consulted to identify
  vocabulary words with an appropriate level of
  difficulty.

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Vocabulary Exercises
Reading Prep Packing Pig Goes to Work
Select the correct letter when you hear its name.
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Vocabulary Exercises
Reading 1 Quail Mail
Listen to a word (presented with print and
sometimes with a picture) and sort it into the
correct category.
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Vocabulary Exercises
Reading 3 Book Monkeys (Passage comp
Vocabulary)
Use context to identify the correct definition
for a challenging word from the passage you just
read.
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Vocabulary Exercises
Reading 5 Gator Jam
Read a partially completed analogy, and select
the word that correctly completes it (can refer
to the built-in glossary).
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MAPs Vocabulary
Reading 3 Canine Crew
Memory, Processing Vocabulary, Semantic
Relationships
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MAPs Vocabulary
Reading 4 Hoof Beat
Processing Memory Vocabulary, Word Forms,
Comprehension
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Sentence Comprehension/ Grammar Exercises

• Goal Improve the accuracy and speed of
  comprehension for sentences with diverse
  grammatical structures.
• Tasks
• Cloze task (Bedtime Beasties, Leaping Lizards,
  Hog Hat Zone, Stinky Bills Billboard)
• Match the sentence to the picture (Ant Antics,
  Twisted Pictures)
• Paraphrasing (Goat Quotes)
• Sentence building (Toad Loader)

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Sentence Comprehension/ Grammar Exercises

• Content
• Sentences were written or selected to provide
  good examples of the targeted grammatical
  structures.
• e.g. Ant Antics sentences were written to
  specifications with decodable words and selected
  syntactic structures. Hog Hat Zones sentences
  were excerpted from classic childrens
  literature.
• To control difficulty level, limitations were
  often put on sentence length and vocabulary.

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Sentence Comprehension/ Grammar Exercises
Reading 3 Twisted Pictures
Read the sentences carefully to select the
correct caption.
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Sentence Comprehension/ Grammar Exercises
Reading 3 Hog Hat Zone
Read the incomplete sentence, and select the
correct, grammatically important word to fill in
the blank.
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Sentence Comprehension/ Grammar Exercises
Reading 5 Toad Loader
Select the correct sentence segments to construct
a grammatically correct and semantically relevant
caption.
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MAPs Sentence Comprehension
Reading 1 Bedtime Beasties
Memory, Processing, and Sequencing Sentence
comprehension
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MAPs Sentence Comprehension
Reading 3 Hog Hat Zone
Sequencing and Memory Morphology, Comprehension
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MAPs Sentence Comprehension
Reading 4 Goat Quotes
Memory and Sequencing Comprehension
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Passage Comprehension Exercises

• Goal Build comprehension skills for fiction
  non-fiction passages and text features.
• Tasks
• Listen, read-along, answer questions (Buzz Fly,
  Dog Bone)
• Re-read independently (Dog Bone)
• Read answer questions (Book Monkeys, Book
  Monkeys Book Two, Lanas Lanes, Quack Splash)
• Comprehension strategies (Lanas Lanes)
• Passage building (Quack Splash)

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Passage Comprehension Exercises

• Content
• Passages were written or selected on the basis of
  complex specifications related to exercise
  design.
• e.g. The passages for Buzz Fly were written to
  meet strict limits on vocabulary, total length,
  and words between questions. Lanas Lanes
  includes some passages from classic kids
  literature.
• To control difficulty level, limitations were
  often put on sentence length, topic, and
  vocabulary.

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Passage Comprehension Exercises
Reading 1 Buzz Fly
Listen and read along to a fiction or non-fiction
passage, then answer questions based on that
passage.
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Passage Comprehension Exercises
Reading 5 Quack Splash
Read the paragraphs on this page carefully, put
them in the correct order, then answer questions
about what you read.
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Passage Comprehension Exercises
Reading 4 Book Monkeys Book Two
Study the table and answer questions about its
content or structure.
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MAPs Passage Comprehension
Reading 4 Lulus Laundry Line
Memory, Sequencing, Attention Sentence
Structure, Punctuation Rules
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MAPs Reading to Learn
Reading 5 Quack Splash
Memory, Attention, Processing Sequencing
Comprehension for longer passages
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A Big Jump from Reading 4
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Fast ForWord to Reading 5Skills

• No longer learning to read.
• prepares students to read to learn
• Focus on advanced comprehension and vocabulary
• including Greek and Latin roots
• Advanced practice in spelling, decoding, and
  phonemic analysis

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MAPs Reading to Learn
Reading 5 Gator Jam
Memory, Attention, Processing Metacognitive
understanding, Critical thinking, Figurative
language
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MAPs Reading to Learn
Reading 5 Quack Splash
Memory Sequencing Organization, Signal words,
Writing skills
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Outcomes for Students Using Fast ForWord to
Reading Products
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Reading after Language
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Reading Alone