Build Sustained Attention and Focus for Participants
Purpose of exercise:
Students correctly identify when a new syllable interrupts a repeated syllable to get all the animals over the fence and on the hills.
Exercise name: Moon Ranch
Level: Fast ForWord Foundation I
The Fast ForWord Foundations I exercise Moon Ranch focuses on the following tasks, goals, and skills.
Task: Identify when a new syllable interrupts a repeated syllable.
Goal: Develop the following cognitive and language & reading skills:
Language & reading skills
Listening accuracy - The ability to distinguish differences between sounds and to correctly identify sequences of sound. This skill helps one recognize and discriminate the rapidly changing sounds that are important for discriminating phonemes.
Auditory sequencing - The ability to recognize and remember the order in which a series of sounds is presented, which is critical for mapping sound sequences to letter sequences when decoding or spelling.
Cognitive skills
Memory - The ability to hold a syllable or word in working memory, while comparing it to a series of potential matches.
Attention - The ability to focus and sustain attention.
Processing - The ability to process spoken syllables and words.