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Pearson Learning

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created by
Elfrieda H. Hiebert

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The QuickReads Approach to Building Reading Proficiency

Text Elements by Task (TExT)

Elfrieda H. Hiebert’s innovative model of text difficulty lies at the core of the unique QuickReads approach to building fluency and boosting overall reading proficiency for all readers

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Research Library

Items from the TextProject Library related to the development and research foundation for the QuickReads program.

Reading for Meaning
Requires Interesting Content

QuickReads texts feature integrated non-fiction content providing a broad standards-based curriculum in science and social studies

The QReads adaptation for older students also includes literature & language and arts & culture

Visit the Content Explorer to check out the QuickReads content

Ask Freddy

QuickReads author and noted reading researcher Freddy Hiebert answers your questions about fluency, proficient reading and how to use QuickReads to help students become better, more efficient readers.

Got a question? Submit it now to askfreddy@quickreads.org

QuickReads Videos

What's New

SUMMERREADS™ SWEEPSTAKES

Enter the SUMMERREADS™ SWEEPSTAKES and be eligible to win books from the QuickReads Fluency Library 1.

  • One winner will get an entire level of the Library (108 books). Four winners will each get a set of social studies or science texts from one level (54 books). 18 winners will get one title (6 books).
  • To enter the sweepstakes: Write a 100+-word description of how you used SummerReads™. Include your name and e-mail so that we can contact you.
  • Send your description to AskFreddy by September 6, 2010, midnight (Pacific time).
  • Winners will be chosen randomly. Descriptions will not be evaluated, will be read by only the TextProject team, and will not be posted.

1 Like SummerReads™, the books in the QuickReads Fluency Library use the TExT model, which means that they are (a) accessible and (b) engaging.

Posted 08/12/2010, Updated 08/12/2010

Stopping the Summer Slide with SummerReads™

Freddy has recorded a new webinar for the Summer! Take a look!

Posted 06/22/2010, Updated 08/24/2010

SummerReads is in Reading Today!

SummerReads™

Take a look at what Reading Today said about SummerReads.

Posted 06/15/2010, Updated 06/15/2010

About QuickReads

QuickReads are exactly that-short texts to be read quickly and with meaning. The QuickReads program consists of six levels: A, B, C, D, E, and F. Each level contains three books, and each book contains 30 texts (90 texts per level). These texts support automaticity with the high-frequency words and phonics/syllabic patterns needed to be a successful reader at a particular grade level. Additionally, with topics in two subject areas: social studies and science, texts in the QuickReads program encourage meaning and comprehension. Book 1 includes texts on Civics, and Life Science. Book 2 includes texts on Economics, Geography, and Earth Science. Book 3 includes texts on History, and Physical Science.

QuickReads Level Grade-level curriculum High-frequency words Phonics and syllable patterns
Level A Early Grade 2 300 most frequent words All long and short vowel patterns in single-syllable words
Level B Grade 2 400 most frequent words All long and short vowel patterns, and r-controlled vowells in single-syllable words
Level C Grade 3 1,000 most frequent words All vowel patterns in single-syllable words
Level D Grade 4 1,000 most frequent words Two-syllable words
Level E Grade 5 2,500 most frequent words Mutli-syllable words with inflected endings
Level F Grade 6 5,000 most frequent words Mutli-syllable words with inflected endings

The QuickReads program is a creative and innovative application of recent research on the nature of texts used to teach reading. QuickReads texts support automatic, meaningful grade-level reading.

QuickReads texts are written at the independent level for a grade. That means that 98% or more of the words in a text fit the grade-level curriculum. Compare this to current textbook or intervention programs where 10-15% of the words often fall outside the grade-level curriculum.

QuickReads texts are at a length that a grade-level reader should be able to read—when reading fluently—in one minute.

QuickReads Level Grade-level curriculum Target number of words per minute
Book 1 Book 2 Book 3
Level A Early Grade 2 80 words 90 words 100 words
Level B Grade 2 90 words 100 words 110 words
Level C Grade 3 100 words 110 words 120 words
Level D Grade 4 110 words 120 words 130 words
Level E Grade 5 120 words 130 words 140 words
Level F Grade 6 130 words 140 words 150 words

Benefits

  • Students of ALL reading abilities read more quickly and retain what they read
  • Students are equipped for ongoing success on the Reading First proficiencies of fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary
  • Curriculum-embedded non-fiction texts in science and social studies are interesting and fun for students
  • Instructional guidance and assessments are easy and flexible for teachers and tutors
  • Design of texts and instruction is based on research and their effectiveness is validated by research

Features

  • Careful balance of familiar and new words promote fluency
  • Interesting content and connections across texts promote comprehension
  • Grade-level appropriate texts focusing on key concepts promote vocabulary

Uniqueness

  • High-frequency words make up 98% of the texts
  • Hard words are repeated so students can develop meaning and word recognition strategies for hard words
  • Text length corresponds to grade-level reading rate for 1 minute
  • Texts are thematically grouped

Posted 10/09/2006, Last Modified 12/18/2006