fast forword ygt 1005
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Gifted and Talented Students gain from the rich content and the comprehensive resources. The high level reading and comprehensive work develop thinking skills (rationalisation, logic, deductive analysis skills, inference etc). Equally students are presented with exercises to improve processing speed, working memory, attention and sequencing skills.TRANSCRIPT
Fast ForWord© Family of Products
Young Gifted and Talented Programme
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YGT Students Can Maximise their Potential through:
Building Motivation and Aspirations by Allowing Easier Access to Higher Level Material than Currently Available in Class.
Developing Specialist Skills Including Comprehension Skills; e.g. Logic / Deduction / Rationalisation / Critical Reasoning / Visual Representation / Problem Solving.
Improving Cognitive Skills of Memory, Attention, Processing Speed and Sequencing
The Student will develop his or her Organisational skills and Analytical Abilities in an Intense Programme that promotes Independence in Learning and Faster Processing
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Scientific Learning
Develops software that exercises students’ brains to help them process more efficiently, the way physical workouts train the body to be more fit and strong.
More efficient brains make independent learning and instruction more powerful.
How Can Brain Science and Technology Help Us?
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Brain FitnessKey Cognitive Skills for
Learning
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Fit Brains Learn BetterSimultaneous Development
of Reading and Cognitive Skills
MemoryMemory
AttentionAttention
Processing Processing
RateRate
SequencingSequencingSkils UniquelyDevelopedTogether in the Student Exercises
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How Can You Help Your Students Using Fast ForWord?
• Improve Learning Maps
• Build Comprehension & Reasoning Skills
• Build Motivation through Engaging and Challenging Exercises
• Develop a Personal Profile of Each Individual for Tuition and Administration Purposes
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The Neuroscience Principles Required to Make the Brain More Efficient
Frequency and intensity
Adaptivity
Simultaneous
development
Timely motivation
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Neuroscience Principle: Frequency and Intensity
For the brain to build and strengthen the pathways needed to learn a new skill, the student must be repeatedly exposed to the material being studied. Learning a new skill efficiently also requires concentrated practice. Intense focus on a new skill allows the student to build more neural support for that skill in a short timeframe
Our ProgrammesEnsure the FrequencyAnd Intensity needed to made Effective and Enduring Gains and Stretch the Student
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Neuroscience Principle: Adaptivity
80% Accuracy20% Challenge
Requires Thousands of
Levels of Adaptivity• Adaptation with every keystroke
• Track and adjust content so student is accurate, on average, 80% of the time, while challenged 20% of the time
Keeping the Brain Engaged
Keeping students engaged in a learning activity requires that they are continuously challenged but not frustrated. If neuron growth is to take place, the brain has to be engaged
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Neuroscience Principle: Simultaneous Development
Our neuroscience designed product includes exercises that work on isolated language or reading skills to strengthen those individual skills and the neural networks that support them, while other exercises will combine more complex language or reading skills to strengthen these more complex behaviours and thereby engage and strengthen more areas of the brain.
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Fast ForWord Family of Products
Now with Spanish
instructions
Now with Spanish
instructions
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Fast ForWord Exercise Examples:
Here are some examples of the Exercises that are Fun and Engaging for
Students and provide a Comprehensive and Effective Skill Development Programme
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Sky Gym:Improves Sequencing, Sound Processing and
Working Memory Skills and Speed of Processing which are Critical for Decoding and Phonemic
Awareness
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Whalien Match:Improves Phonological Awareness, Accuracy and
Fluency as well as Working Memory Skills
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Space CommanderStudents Improve Listening Accuracy,
Listening Comprehension. Auditory Working Memory and the Ability to Follow Instructions
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Cosmic ReaderImproves Skills in Listening Comprehension, Following
Directions, English Language Conventions, Auditory Working Memory and Vocabulary
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HoundiniStudents Associate Letters with Sounds to develop Phonological Awareness Skills including Phoneme
Awareness and Phonological Working Memory
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Magic RabbitHelps Builds Spelling Skills and Sensitivity
to Letter-Sound Relationships
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Bear BagsBuilds Skills in Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and
Decoding of One and Two Syllable Words
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Magic BirdHelps Builds Familiarity with Word Families, Initial and Final Consonants, Vowels and Morphological Endings
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Fish FrenzyBuilds Fluency using High Frequency Sight Words and
Vocabulary as well as Attention and Processing
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Quail MailBuilds Vocabulary through Categorisation and
Semantic and Pragmatic Organisers
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Ant AnticsDevelops Critical Reading and Sentence
Comprehension by Asking Students to Match Pictures to their Descriptive Titles
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Twisted PicturesDevelops Sentence Comprehension Skills by
Incorporatinga High Level of Syntactic Complexity
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Organizationof Content
Moves from simple to more
complex, low to higher memory
load, building knowledge to analysis and
synthesis.
Goat QuotesImproves comprehension of Short Paragraphs through
a Paraphrase Detection Task
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Hog Hat ZoneCloze Exercises that build Accuracy in Grammar,
Structures and Pronouns,
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Lulu’s Laundry LineDevelops Punctuation, Grammar and Language
Structures
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Reading 4: Book Monkeys: Book Two
Passage Comprehension Exercises
Study the table and answer questions about its content or structure.
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• Advanced phonics and spelling • Suffixes, prefixes, contractions, and syllable constructions• Roots and affixes from Greek and Latin • Frequently used synonyms and antonyms • Analogies • Grammatical structures• Prepositional phrases, appositives, independent and dependent clauses• Transitions and conjunctions• Verbs, modifiers and pronouns• Main idea, inference, conclusion, generalization• Structural analysis • Comprehension strategies• Graphic/semantic organizers; summarization• Analysis of text• Multiple-paragraph stories & expository passages • Figurative and metaphorical use of words
Exercises that develop the cognitive skills of Memory, Attention, Processing Rate and Sequencing using:
Reading 5example of Key Skills Developed
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Wood WorksBuilds Accuracy and Fluency in Spelling, Decoding and
Phonemic Analysis
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Lana’s LanesStudents Learn Reading Comprehension Strategies
using a wide-range of Literary Structures and Devices
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Memory, Attention, Processing & Sequencing – Comprehension for longer passages
Reading 5: Quack SplashMAPs & Reading to Learn / Comprehension \
Sequencing
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Reading 5: Toad Loader Sentence Comprehension/ Grammar Exercises
Select the correct sentence segments to construct a grammatically correct and semantically relevant caption.
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Reading 5: Gator Jam
MAPs & Reading to Learn / Metacognitive understanding, Critical thinking, Figurative
language
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Reading 5: Quack Splash Passage Comprehension Exercises / Complex
Sequencing
Read the paragraphs on this page carefully, put them in the correct order, then answer questions about what you read.
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Progress Tracker• Analysis Tools to help Teachers
– Create Learner Profiles– Track Student Errors– Monitor Progress– Easily Communicate Student Performance– Correlate to National Curriculum Standards
–Assess 4 Key Skill Areas –Phonemic Awareness, Decoding, Vocabulary Comprehension
– and Reading Levels
Reading Progress Indicator
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Progress History…Reading 4
H/ja/lit
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H/ja/lit
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Student Weekly Achievement Reports
Goal Setting & Achievement
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Student Weekly Achievement Reports
Participation and Points
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Implementation Models
• School Day – during regular hours of the school day
• Before/After School – extend beyond the regular school day
• Summer School – customized to fit your summer school program
• Intersession
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Protocol Choices
Fast ForWord Language Basics
Fast ForWord Language
Fast ForWord Language to Reading
Fast ForWord to Literacy / Advanced
Fast ForWord to Reading
30 min/day 5 days/week 3-6 weeks
30 min/day 5 days/week 12-16 weeks
40 min/day 5 days/week 9-13 weeks
50 min/day 5 days/week 6-10 weeks
90 min/day 5 days/week 4-7 weeks
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Improved Perception
Sharpened Phonological Representations
Enhanced Oral Language Abilities
Strengthened Reading, Writing, Spelling
Development of Learning & Academic Skills
Creation of Successful Students
Goals of Fast ForWord
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Testimonials about YGT Students
"Carson's always been a reader," Susan explains, "but she would start a book and never finish it until Fast ForWord."Susan also noticed a big improvement in Carson's organizational skills." She was the kind of kid who would tell me she had a report due, and when I asked her when she would say, ' This morning. ' You know, a book report. After Fast ForWord, I would say, ' What are you doing? ' and she would say, ' I'm working on a report.' And I would say, ' Oh gosh, when is it due? ' And she would say, ' Oh, it's not due until next month, but I wanted to get a head start.Susan Savage, quoted from a Fast ForWord Case Study
High performing students and those classified as “gifted and talented” who used the Fast ForWord products made significant improvements in cognitiveskills, reading skills, and academic achievement. These findings demonstrate that an optimal learning environment coupled with a focus on cognitive skillscan help students who are “gifted and talented” or high achieving increase their skills and increase the benefit they receive from their school’s curriculumSource Scientific Learning Corporation. (2007). Improved Reading Skills and Academic Achievement by Gifted and Talented Students who used Fast ForWord® Products, MAPS for
Learning: Educator Reports, 11(11): 1-4..
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We Help You Deliver the Best Tutor Led Instructionby Giving you Access to the Best Resources
Memory
Attention
Processing
Rate
Sequencing
Memory
Attention
Processing
Rate
Sequencing
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Thank You
Please Contact us for Further Information:
John Kerins, Director, Neuron Learning– P: 020 7193 6595– [email protected]– www.neuronlearning.eu