Destination Knowledge: Programs

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Improves Silent Reading Speed
FLRT is a fluency tool that has been designed to systematically increase reading speed while ensuring proficient reading comprehension. Layering these component skills provides each student with educationally sound practice in fluency.

Hurrah! MindPlay's FLRT wond the prestigious AEP Award in the Technology Software Category for K-5 Curriculum!

Reading can be a laborious task for students who read slowly. FLRT provides visual discrimination practice while learning to read sight words and high frequency words. Continued practice using FLRT actually trains the reader’s eyes to move from left to right efficiently and to sweep in one movement. For students who use FLRT, school becomes easier, reading becomes more meaningful, vocabularies explode and higher education becomes attractive, preventing drop-outs. Students improve their reading speed from 50 to over 300 words per minute.

Who should use FLRT?

• Anyone wanting to improve reading skills, speed or comprehension
• Beginning readers to above average readers
• Anyone ages 6 and up with basic reading skills

Benefits: Helps Students Enjoy Reading.

Fluent Reading Trainer can be used at any time during the school year to obtain a baseline reading rate. Use FLRT repeatedly to monitor ongoing progress for individual students and for overall class performance in: Reading Speed (effective words per minute), grade level performance and reading comprehension. ..

Fluent Reading Trainer Works to:

• Improve eye-tracking to move from left to right in one efficient movement
• Increase reading rate from 50 to over 300 words per minute
• Foster reading enjoyment through high interest stories and nonfiction selections

Improves fluency and comprehension skills in hours not years:

• Enables students to progress through the program at their own pace
• Allows students to work at an appropriate level of instruction
• Provides reading practice using authentic literature
• Allows students to work in a safe environment
• Enables emergent readers to progress using decodable text
• Guarantees efficient use of time for both the teacher and students
• Enables students to practice visual discrimination and efficient eye movement

Features:

Students improve reading speed while reading content-rich stories Student sets the initial reading speed

• Story passages include narrative and expository text
• FLRT generates random stories with each use
• Program offers decodable stories option
• Comprehension questions include varied levels of difficulty
• Each reading selection includes 5 - 12 questions
• Type size is adjustable to accommodate different grade levels

Provides easy management-tracking for teachers and administrators

• Reports on student or class performance
• Provides Improvement statistics
• Adjusts to select decodable passages for emerging readers

Lesson & Activities

• FLRT includes self-paced activities to improve reading speed and comprehension
• Question and answer technique monitors reading comprehension
• Students receive practice in comprehension and fluency using a variety of passage lengths
• Stories are graded from 0.5 to 12.0
• Sight Word activity improves automaticity of high frequency and sight words..