Fast Forward Orange: Teacher’s Guide Level 15 (Digital Download Edition)

Engage your less confident readers and improve reading attainment with Fast Forward. This series offers a wide range of age-appropriate, high-interest readers for children in Key Stage 2 and 3 who are struggling to make progress with their reading. Each book has been carefully levelled to ensure steady progression with a range of text types introduced which children can use as a model for their own writing. The comprehensive Fast Forward Teacher’s Guides are essential components in effectively implementing Fast Forward. The Teacher’s Guides have been written to ensure everyone from teachers to trained specialists can implement the programme. Each Teacher’s Guide features: Implementation recommendations Teaching notes Activity sheets Assessment sheets Graphing and planning proformas. This Teacher’s Guide provides teacher’s notes for the Fast Forward level 15 Instructional Texts. Fast Forward books are designed for striving readers with an interest level of ages 7-12 but with a reading age of 5-9.5 years. To ensure that children are given every opportunity to succeed in their reading, the introduction of new words is one new word for every 16 known words (1:16). Unlike levelled reading programmes for younger children, Fast Forward introduces more complex sentences at the earliest levels. This series contains both instructional and independent texts. The core instructional texts are designed for teacher-led guided or shared reading sessions and have audio recordings available to download from the scholastic website, and have an associated Teacher’s Guide. The independent texts are carefully levelled for independent reading to help build reading confidence.