LAVC, Department of Psychology
Developmental Communications
®
PLATO FASTRACK Advantage Reading Skills and Strategies:
Assessment/Curriculum
FASTRACK is used for students with very low skills as a way of assuring that
they receive instruction in foundation skills that they may be lacking. Skilldeficient students may not be able to do typical remedial work, and very basic
deficits may not be disclosed by results of tests or courses aimed at typical high
school students. FASTRACK is the best way to determine what students lack.
OUTLINE
FASTRACK Advantage Reading Skills and Strategies
Assessment/Curriculum
 Comprehension Assessment Test
 Reading Skills and Strategies Assessment Test
 Reading Skills and Strategies Curriculum (No Levels: A, E, G, H)
o [ No Level A ]
o Reading Skills and Strategies Level B
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Pronouns
Possessive Pronouns
Contractions with Is and Am
Contractions with Will
Contractions with Are
Contractions with Not
Contractions with Would
Tenses of Regular Verbs
Tenses of Irregular Verbs
Comparisons
Compound Words
Abbreviations
Cause and Effect Words
Negative Prefixes
Prefixes
Prefixes of Number
Homonyms
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LAVC, Department of Psychology
Developmental Communications
®
PLATO FASTRACK Advantage Reading Skills and Strategies:
Assessment/Curriculum
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Homophones
Idioms
Similes
Synonyms
Antonyms
o Reading Skills and Strategies Level C
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Being a Word Detective
Finding Main Ideas 1
Finding Main Ideas 2
What Happens Next?
Finding What You Need
Drawing Conclusions
Working with Order
Finding Causes and Effects
Finding What's Similar and What's Different
Finding Facts and Opinions
o Reading Skills and Strategies Level D
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Expanding Your Vocabulary
Using What You Know
Separating Facts from Opinions
Asking and Answering Questions
Reading Between the Lines
Finding What's Important
Summarizing What You Read
Using Pictures to Help You Understand
Picturing What You Read
Tracking Your Understanding
o [ No Level E ]
o Reading Skills and Strategies Level F
 Enriching Your Vocabulary
 Using Prior Knowledge When You Read
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LAVC, Department of Psychology
Developmental Communications
®
PLATO FASTRACK Advantage Reading Skills and Strategies:
Assessment/Curriculum
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Discovering Facts and Opinions
Using a Question/Answer Strategy
Making Inferences
Locating What's Important
Summarizing What's Important
Using Graphics to Help You Understand
Visualizing When You Read
Monitoring Your Comprehension
o [ No Level G ]
o [ No Level H ]
o Reading Skills and Strategies Level I
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Finding the Resources
Asking Questions
Finding Answers
Preparing for Review
Putting It Together
Building Your Vocabulary
Reading to Remember
Doing Your Best on Reading Tests
Building Your Social Sciences Vocabulary
Understanding the Social Sciences
A Strategy for Reading Social Sciences
Building Your Literature Vocabulary
Understanding Literature
A Strategy for Reading Literature
Building Your History Vocabulary
Understanding History
Understanding History
A Strategy for Reading History
Building Your Science Vocabulary
Understanding Science
A Strategy for Reading Science
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