Fast ForWord Reading: Scientific Learning Corp. .www.scientificlearning.com, $850, or $3,250 for five discs Fast ForWord Overview Fast ForWord is a family of educational software products intended to enhance cognitive skills of children, especially focused on developing "phonological awareness" (discussed below). Reading is the newest addition to Scientific Learning's system of technology-based training programs designed to build language and reading skills. The program targets all students who are learning to read by focusing on the key skills that enable students to become fluent readers. The program cross-trains core reading skills, including decoding de·code tr.v. de·cod·ed, de·cod·ing, de·codes 1. To convert from code into plain text. 2. To convert from a scrambled electronic signal into an interpretable one. 3. , spelling, syntax, grammar, sentence comprehension, vocabulary, organization, memory, passage comprehension, phonology phonology, study of the sound systems of languages. It is distinguished from phonetics, which is the study of the production, perception, and physical properties of speech sounds; phonology attempts to account for how they are combined, organized, and convey meaning , morphology morphology In biology, the study of the size, shape, and structure of organisms in relation to some principle or generalization. Whereas anatomy describes the structure of organisms, morphology explains the shapes and arrangement of parts of organisms in terms of such , word recognition and fluency. The exercises adjust automatically to a student's skill level, and the program provides regular updates to the student and the teacher on each student's progress. |
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