Remote Fast ForWord use

Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant Plus can be utilized by students at home.

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Training and recorded webinars

Use the resources below to quickly set up your distance learning program.

Self-paced videos

Student video series - an excellent resource to play directly for your students!

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Free live training

Recorded webinars

  • Paraeducators and Student Success – The Evolving Role of Paras in Remote Learning
  • Paraeducators play an important role in student success. Continuing to leverage their support during periods of non-traditional instruction can be vital to continued student growth. In this session, you will learn how paras can support both students and teachers utilizing Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant Plus in their virtual classroom.
  • Remote Learning Using Fast ForWord – Overview for Parents of Elementary Age Students
  • For parents of elementary students, this 30 minute session followed by a question and answer session will give an overview of how Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant Plus can be done at home. Parents will receive information on how these components can help their children increase their reading skills and their ability to attend to tasks, practice self-regulation, build working memory, and process more efficiently.
  • Remote Learning Using Fast ForWord – Overview for Parents of Middle School and High School Students
  • For parents of middle school or high school students, this 30 minute session followed by a question and answer session will give an overview of how Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant Plus can be done at home. Parents will receive information on how these components can help their children increase their ability to attend to tasks, practice self-regulation, build working memory, and process more efficiently.

Parent resources

These tools let you communicate with parents and caregivers about using the programs at home (includes Spanish translations for most documents).

Use this form to share a student’s login credentials with parents/caregivers.

  • Log in to www.myscilearn.com and go to the Manage page.
  • Select your school and check specific students or check All.
  • Go to More Actions and choose Print Usernames and Passwords.
  • Repeat for the next page if you have a large number of students.

Alternatively, if you or your school's IT staff will be sending an email blast to all parents at the same time, please do not include individual usernames and passwords. Simply modify the Using at home documents above as needed.

If you have any questions please contact our support team at this Support link.

Instruct parents/caregivers how students should log in from home

Use these letters to give parents/caregivers an overview of the programs

Help parents/caregivers build reading skills at home

Set up weekly automated emails

The program makes it easy to communicate with parents/caregivers when students are working remotely. Watch the first video to learn how to set up an automated email report. You will be instructed to select the Fast ForWord Weekly Growth report and/or the Reading Assistant Plus Selections report. The next two videos explain how to read these reports and you can even copy and paste our email templates into your automated email which include links to these two videos. See the section below - Text to copy and paste into automated email.

Steps to set up weekly automated email reports
  1. Log in to www.myscilearn.com and go to Reports.
  2. Select Email Scheduler in the upper right hand corner and go to New Email.
  3. Enter the parent’s email address in the “To” box and title the email (the title will appear on each sent email).
  4. We have prepared three email templates for you. One for Fast ForWord, one for Reading Assistant Plus, and one for combined use. Each template contains a video(s) that parents can watch to learn about the report(s) they are receiving. Copy the text from the appropriate template below into the box titled Include Message (optional):
  5. From the Schedule menu, choose Weekly.
  6. Click Add/Remove Reports, select Student Level from the Report Level menu, and select the group.
  7. Select the parent’s child.
  8. If the student is using Fast ForWord, check the Weekly Growth Report. If the student is using Reading Assistant Plus, check the Selections Report (or both as appropriate).
  9. Click Add. The parent will then receive an automated email each Saturday with the report(s) you selected.

Fast ForWord email template

Copy and paste the text to the right into the box titled:

Include Message (optional):

Dear [enter parent or caregiver name],

Attached you will find your child’s weekly progress report for the Fast ForWord program. To learn how to read this report, watch the quick tutorial below and then let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

Learn how to read the Weekly Growth report - https://help.scilearn.com/toolbox/videos/ffwweeklyrpt/ffwweeklyrpt.html

Sincerely,

[Teacher’s name]

Reading Assistant Plus email template

Copy and paste the text to the right into the box titled:

Include Message (optional):

Dear [enter parent or caregiver name],

Attached you will find your child’s weekly progress report for the Reading Assistant Plus program. To learn how to read this report, watch the quick tutorial below and then let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

Learn how to read the Reading Assistant Selection report - https://help.scilearn.com/toolbox/videos/RAweeklyrpt/RAweeklyrpt.html

Sincerely,

[Teacher’s name]

Combined Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant Plus email template

Copy and paste the text to the right into the box titled:

Include Message (optional):

Dear [enter parent or caregiver name],

Attached you will find your child’s weekly progress reports for the Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant Plus programs. To learn how to read this report, watch the quick tutorial below and then let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

Learn how to read the Weekly Growth report - https://help.scilearn.com/toolbox/videos/ffwweeklyrpt/ffwweeklyrpt.html

Learn how to read the Reading Assistant Selection report - https://help.scilearn.com/toolbox/videos/RAweeklyrpt/RAweeklyrpt.html

Sincerely,

[Teacher’s name]