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QuickReads Print

For Elementary Grade Students

Reading Levels: A–F

Information about QuickReads Print from Pearson:

• Pricing, Configurations & More Info
• Elfrieda H. Hiebert Fluency Podcasts
• QuickReads Program Overview Brochure PDF
• FAQ
• QuickReads Research Compendium PDF

Training Reources from myPearsonTraining.com:

• QuickReads Webinars & Online Tutorials

The original member of the QuickReads product family provides a comprehensive research-based fluency program for elementary age students.

The original member of the QuickReads product family, the QuickReads print edition provides a comprehensive research-based fluency program for elementary age students.

What is QuickReads?

Dr. Elfrieda Hiebert's TExT model of text difficulty is the innovative, research-based foundation of the QuickReads family of products. Click here to learn more

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.

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.

How can QuickReads be used to help English Language Learner?
QuickReads helps you target the needs of students with varying levels of English proficiency. With QuickReads, you can:

• Help English language learners master high-frequency and critical content vocabulary through practice and reinforcement.
• Build fluency and comprehension through repeated readings and monitoring. Build knowledge in social studies and science via high-interest nonfiction texts.
• Use self- and teacher-directed assessment to measure progress in all students and to provide immediate feedback.
• Provide additional supports at point-of-use through motivating technology that prompts pronunciation of unknown words and provides both models of fluent reading and instant feedback.

How is QuickReads unique?
QuickReads help students build reading success quickly and systematically with a unique, research-based text model. Repeated use of QuickReads creates strong readers with a proven, consistent instructional routine. In addition, QuickReads heightens background knowledge through companion programs designed to afford additional time with accessible text.

What are some benefits from using QuickReads?

• 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

QuickReads offers a comprehensive program to strengthen fluency and comprehension, while building background knowledge in science and social studies. Each QuickReads level includes three books, covering six topics with five passages per topic. Built-in placement and ongoing progress monitoring ensures that every student benefits from using QuickReads.

• Challenges students to use their higher-order thinking skills and solidify content-area knowledge by making connections across five passages

• Promotes the consistent development of comprehension strategies through a research-based and validated instructional routine that systematically improves reading performance

• Provides benchmark passages for every level for easy placement and ongoing progress monitoring with oral reading logs

• QuickReads is quick and easy to implement. Just 15 minutes per day in instructional time is all it takes to maximize student gains with QuickReads

• Developed using Dr. Hiebert’s TExT Model of Reading

• Each level includes 3 books of 6 topics each in science or social studies, 18 topics total per level

• Each topic includes 5 passages, for a total of 30 per book, 90 per level

Content

Content Explorer: View Topics and Passage Titles for QuickReads

The QuickReads text model fosters the development of oral reading skills through the independent practice of reading short, 1-minute informational text in print or on the computer, featuring:

• 98% high-frequency words and words with a grade-appropriate set of phonic/syllabic patterns.

• 2% content-area vocabulary with repeated exposure.

• Multiple thematically linked passages.

• Informational text that correlates to national standards in Social Studies and Science.