What is Fast ForWord? 1 We Exercise our Bodies Exercise makes - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Hello boys and girls! My name is Mama Bear. I will help explain how your brain works and how we can make it work better. What is Fast ForWord? 1

We Exercise our Bodies Exercise makes our muscles grow strong. 2

Brain Exercise! This is what your brain looks like in your head! 3

How Does Your Brain Work? Information travels through our brains like a car on a roller coaster. Have any of you ridden a roller coaster? 4

How Does Your Brain Work? Have you ridden in a car like this on a roller coaster? Was it fun? 5

Amazing! Have you ever worked on a maze? Did you find your way out? Things travel through your brain like that. 6

Some of Our Brains Work Slower Have you ever tried to ride a bike with a flat tire? It’s hard! Some things are more difficult when our brains need exercise. 7

We Want Our Brains to Work Really Well! When our tires are full, it’s really fun to ride! When our brains exercise, learning is really fun too! 8

Fast ForWord Changes our Brains! What are each of these children doing? That’s right, they are learning! Boy, you sure are smart! 9

How Do We Exercise our Brains? Do these look like my arms? Memory Attention Nooooo! Our brain exercises are going to help you work on remembering and paying attention. 10

Fast ForWord=Fun! Fast ForWord Exercises Processing Sequencing will help you understand Rate your teacher better, and help you get things in order better! 11

The Exercises What are each of these students doing? Exercising! Let’s get ready to exercise our brains! 12

Language V2 13

Your Scores These are the points to earn from answering the questions. 14

Language to Reading V2 15

Your Scores 16

Let’s Measure You! This is me standing up tall. I’m pretty tall! 17

One Last Thing We need to measure you! Look for your Name Date When you are ready to start click here 18

Click here to listen to the question. You can only hear it twice Select your answer Click Next 19

If you have to leave before you finish Click here 20

You have to read this question. 21

Where Do We Start? Who is ready to get started? 22

Are you ready? Let’s Go! 23