How does Fast ForWord help children learn to read?
Perhaps the most crucial skill any child will learn in elementary school is the ability to read. Yet learning to read is one of the most difficult challenges young students will face in their lifetime. It’s a period of intense learning and a period where critical brain processing skills are developed. Because reading requires many different events to take place simultaneously in the brain, Fast ForWord programs are designed to develop and strengthen the foundational processing skills of the young learner. Fast ForWord programs simultaneously develop the processing efficiency AND literacy skills (such as phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, decoding, working memory, syntax and grammar) that elementary students need to learn to read or become a better reader. Teachers note many important benefits beyond reading, such as better focus, better attitude, and even better scores in subjects other than reading.
