Reading is a complex process. Help your struggling learners find the joy in reading by strengthening often-overlooked foundations of literacy. Research shows that reading proficiency requires not only the 5 pillars—phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension—but also the deeper cognitive skills underlying them, such as working memory, attention, and processing.

Fast ForWord uniquely and simultaneously targets both reading and cognitive skills with individualized, evidence-based strategies to create an effective and engaging learning environment for struggling readers. Students in Tier 2 and Tier 3, those receiving special education services, English language learners, and those at underperforming schools make fast and lasting gains with Fast ForWord’s brain-based approach that’s based on how reading works.

Fast ForWord Reading is our K-5 solution that accelerates reading growth for students, leading them down the path toward becoming skilled readers, successful learners, effective communicators, and confident individuals.

Bear Bags

• Develops phonemic awareness
• Improves sound-letter identification
• Targets working memory

Book Monkeys

• Strengthens reading comprehension
• Improves the ability to make inferences 
• Requires sustained attention

Fast ForWord Literacy for 6-12 is a reading intervention fully designed for adolescent learners. It has a proven record of accelerating reading gains that result in higher achievement in multiple subject areas, social-emotional growth, and improved graduation rates.

Twisted Pictures

• Develops reading comprehension and fluency
• Improves grammar
• Builds word learning strategies & independent reading skills

Scrap Cat

• Builds vocabulary, grammar, and decoding skills
• Focuses on word structure and knowledge
• Improves phonemic awareness

Fast ForWord is ranked the top English language development program on What Works Clearinghouse™, and for good reason. It is uniquely designed to build the listening, speaking, and reading skills for beginning to advanced language learners, and the secret is our brain-based approach.

Fast ForWord trains the brain to process auditory information accurately and efficiently—a critical prerequisite skill to phonological awareness, phonics, and decoding that other reading interventions don’t address. English language learners, as well as students with dyslexia, auditory processing disorder, and other learning disabilities, need to intentionally develop auditory processing to catch up to grade-level learning. And it’s possible with acoustically modified speech, which slows down and amplifies speech sounds until the brain can catch up.

 Fast ForWord Reading for K-5 simultaneously and rigorously develops reading, cognitive, and social-emotional learning skills, helping students to efficiently learn to read so they can read to learn. You might be surprised by how peculiar the audio sounds in these samples, but rest assured: you’re hearing acoustically modified speech, part of the patented technology that makes the Fast ForWord software so powerful.

Space Commander

• Focuses on following directions
• Improves listening accuracy
• Requires sustained and focused attention
• Uses acoustically modified speech

Robo-Dog

• Improves vocabulary
• Strengthens phonological awareness
• Targets auditory processing
• Uses acoustically modified speech

Fast ForWord Literacy is our 6-12 solution designed to deliver the immediate feedback, rewards, and positive learning environment that learners need to stay motivated and become successful lifelong readers. These sample exercises rigorously cross-train reading and cognitive skills, helping students quickly catch up to grade-level reading.

AI Assistant

• Builds English grammar skills
• Strengthens listening comprehension
• Requires sustained attention and close listening
• Uses acoustically modified speech

Space Salvage

• Develops auditory word recognition
• Improves listening and phonological accuracy
• Strengthens working memory
• Uses acoustically modified speech