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Fast ForWord© Family of Products

Young Gifted and Talented Programme

[email protected] UK 020 7193 6595 Ire 021 455 4449www.neuronlearning.eu

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


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?



Brain FitnessKey Cognitive Skills for

Learning


Fit Brains Learn BetterSimultaneous Development

of Reading and Cognitive Skills

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SequencingSequencingSkils UniquelyDevelopedTogether in the Student Exercises


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


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


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


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.


Fast ForWord Family of Products

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Now with Spanish

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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


Space CommanderStudents Improve Listening Accuracy,

Listening Comprehension. Auditory Working Memory and the Ability to Follow Instructions


Cosmic ReaderImproves Skills in Listening Comprehension, Following

Directions, English Language Conventions, Auditory Working Memory and Vocabulary


HoundiniStudents Associate Letters with Sounds to develop Phonological Awareness Skills including Phoneme

Awareness and Phonological Working Memory


Magic RabbitHelps Builds Spelling Skills and Sensitivity

to Letter-Sound Relationships


Bear BagsBuilds Skills in Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and

Decoding of One and Two Syllable Words


Magic BirdHelps Builds Familiarity with Word Families, Initial and Final Consonants, Vowels and Morphological Endings


Fish FrenzyBuilds Fluency using High Frequency Sight Words and

Vocabulary as well as Attention and Processing


Quail MailBuilds Vocabulary through Categorisation and

Semantic and Pragmatic Organisers


Ant AnticsDevelops Critical Reading and Sentence

Comprehension by Asking Students to Match Pictures to their Descriptive Titles


Twisted PicturesDevelops Sentence Comprehension Skills by

Incorporatinga High Level of Syntactic Complexity


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


Hog Hat ZoneCloze Exercises that build Accuracy in Grammar,

Structures and Pronouns,


Lulu’s Laundry LineDevelops Punctuation, Grammar and Language

Structures


Reading 4: Book Monkeys: Book Two

Passage Comprehension Exercises

Study the table and answer questions about its content or structure.


• 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


Wood WorksBuilds Accuracy and Fluency in Spelling, Decoding and

Phonemic Analysis


Lana’s LanesStudents Learn Reading Comprehension Strategies

using a wide-range of Literary Structures and Devices


Memory, Attention, Processing & Sequencing – Comprehension for longer passages

Reading 5: Quack SplashMAPs & Reading to Learn / Comprehension \

Sequencing


Reading 5: Toad Loader Sentence Comprehension/ Grammar Exercises

Select the correct sentence segments to construct a grammatically correct and semantically relevant caption.


Reading 5: Gator Jam

MAPs & Reading to Learn / Metacognitive understanding, Critical thinking, Figurative

language


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.


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


Progress History…Reading 4

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Student Weekly Achievement Reports

Goal Setting & Achievement


Student Weekly Achievement Reports

Participation and Points


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


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






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


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..


We Help You Deliver the Best Tutor Led Instructionby Giving you Access to the Best Resources

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More Information

• Scientific Learning www.scilearn.com

• Neuron Learning www.neuronlearning.eu

• Programme demos http://www.scilearn.com/products/index.php

• Research http://www.scilearn.com/results/index.php

• Video on the Science behind Fast ForWord http://www.neuronlearning.eu/index.cfm/page/viewArticle/rId/2/aId/19

• Video on Kenmare Community School http://www.neuronlearning.eu/index.cfm/page/viewArticle/rId/2/aId/18


Thank You

Please Contact us for Further Information:

John Kerins, Director, Neuron Learning– P: 020 7193 6595– [email protected]– www.neuronlearning.eu

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