Fast ForWord for Adults

Fast ForWord programs are not just for school students. Many adults struggle daily with their careers and personal lives due to poor reading, language and listening abilities. Fast ForWord is ideal for adults who want to improve their listening skills, their reading ability, and for those wishing to improve their use of the English language.

Adults complete the two Fast ForWord language programs, Fast ForWord Literacy and Fast ForWord Literacy Advanced, and then follow up with the appropriate reading programs, Fast ForWord Reading 3, Fast ForWord Reading 4, and Fast ForWord Reading 5.

Fast ForWord Literacy

Fast ForWord Literacy develops the listening and language skills that give adults the solid foundational skills they need to become better readers including:

  • Auditory discrimination
  • Language structures
  • Working memory
  • Listening comprehension
  • Phonological fluency

Fast ForWord Literacy builds cognitive, language, and literacy skills.

Fast Forward Literacy focuses on listening accuracy, phonological awareness, and language structures.

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Fast ForWord Literacy Advanced

Fast ForWord Literacy Advanced provides the critical link needed to improve overall literacy in adults who are struggling to read and learn. It features:

  • Motivating animations
  • Pracitice with phonemic awareness, decoding, and word recognition
  • Advanced practice in decoding
  • Sequential and inferential comprehension questions
  • Advanced grammatical structures
  • Highly demanding sustained attention tasks
  • Ability to sequence multi-step instructions
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Fast ForWord Reading 3

Makes Words and Language Fit Together

Fast ForWord to Reading 3 exercises build reading knowledge and fluency. With a focus on recognizing word sounds, word forms, and spelling conventions this product develops basic vocabulary and comprehension skills.

Using an exclusive patented technology to help adults build cognitive skills in the context of essential reading skills, Fast ForWord to Reading 3 exercises work on:

  • Advanced knowledge of letter sounds
  • Phonology and spelling
  • Structure of written language
  • Cause and effect relationships in written text
  • Paragraph comprehension
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Fast ForWord Reading 4

Produces Faster Comprehension and an Expanded Vocabulary

Fast ForWord to Reading 4 exercises expand reading skills with a focus on applying knowledge of word origins, word forms, sentence structures, and punctuation rules to improve comprehension.

It continues the development of cognitive skills but presented in the context of reading.

Fast ForWord to Reading 4 exercises use exclusive patented technology to help students build cognitive skills in the context of essential reading skills including:

  • Decoding
  • Spelling
  • Vocabulary
  • Sentence comprehension
  • Paragraph comprehension
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Fast ForWord Reading 5

Strengthens Critical Thinking Skills

Fast ForWord to Reading 5 exercises focus on advanced reading comprehension and vocabulary skills.

Based on research of how the brain learns, Fast ForWord to Reading 5 exercises use exclusive patented technology to help adults build cognitive skills in the context of essential reading skills including:

  • Advanced practice in phonemic analysis, spelling and decoding
  • Vocabulary
  • Comprehension strategies
  • Complex sentence construction and comprehension
  • Passage construction, organization and comprehension
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