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QuickReads Technology Edition

For Elementary Grade Students

Reading Levels: A–F

Featuring all the passages and activities of the print edition, QuickReads Technology Edition adds voice-recognition and automatic assessment and progress monitoring, making QuickReads even easier to use in more learning environments. Available for PC or Mac in Standalone and Network versions.

QuickReads Technology Edition is the integration of QuickReads and advanced software from Scientific Learning. The result is the best speech-recognition technology available with the best fluency program available.

QuickReads Technology Edition motivates and empowers students to become confident, fluent readers through instant intervention and feedback.

Research shows that when properly integrated with classroom instruction, technology can provide students with additional opportunities to practice reading and dramatically improve fluency and comprehension. QuickReads has seamlessly integrated advanced, research-based technology to increase the benefits of QuickReads in the classroom. By extending additional support to students individually and precisely when it is needed, technology can create a highly motivating learning environment that can build student confidence and achievement.

QuickReads Technology Edition provides a personalized reading partner for every student with advanced, speech-recognition technology that:

• Fosters development of oral reading skills through self-paced practice and instant feedback.
• Provides instant intervention to prompt pronunciation and correct errors.
• Helps language-proficient as well as ESL/ELL students model correct pronunciation and phrasing.
• Assesses and records student progress on such measures as accuracy, comprehension and reading rate.
• Enables physically challenged children to access the content through CAST-approved accessibility features.

QuickReads Technology Edition is available in stand-alone and network editions
Stand-alone Edition: is installed on the computers in your classroom or computer lab.

• The QuickReads® Classroom Package includes both print and technology for teacher-led instruction that can be seamlessly integrated with independent practice at the technology-based fluency center in your classroom.
• QuickReads® RtI Package includes technology that is specially configured to address the wider-ranging needs of students at various tiers of intervention.

Network Edition: is installed on a dedicated server and can serve an entire school or district by providing students with access to the program from any QuickReads computer.
QuickReads Network Edition extends the stand-alone technology edition with additional features for students and educators. Residing on your school’s or district’s dedicated server, the Network Edition provides classroom-validated instruction to an unlimited number of students across your school district, resulting in an exceptional return on investment.

• Students: Work on any computer workstation and access all levels of QuickReads.
• Teacher: View student progress and immediately identify students who need additional help.
• Administrators: Collect, measure, and manage student performance data from one central console and create AYP reports instantly with built-in custom reporting features that disaggregate student results. Monitor reading progress across the district, school, grade, class, or at the individual student level. Provide earlier intervention based on detailed class and individual student progress reports.

Features

Matching the innovative and successful QuickReads program with advanced Soliloquy technology offers a range of additional options for teaching and learning. Voice recognition technology provides students opportunities for independent reading practice with automatic feedback and correction. Additional features include built-in assessment and progress monitoring, increased accessibility and more.

• Provides vocabulary help, including second-language support in Spanish, models correct pronunciation, and uses words in context.
• Prompts pronunciation of unknown words and corrects errors.
• Models natural, fluent reading at the targeted words-per-minute rate. Provides built-in monitoring of students’ repeated readings.
• Allows students to listen to themselves and self-correct.
• Highlights passage words read correctly and those requiring intervention.
• Teaches critical content words.
• Motivates visual learners with striking images.
• Differentiates instruction with Spanish vocabulary support and expanded accessibility features.

Content

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• The QuickReads Classroom Package includes both print and technology for teacher-led instruction that can be seamlessly integrated with independent practice at the technology-based fluency center in your classroom.
• QuickReads RtI Package includes technology that is specially configured to address the wider-ranging needs of students at various tiers of intervention.

System Requirements

Stand-Alone Edition (v3)

Windows

• Windows 2000, XP Home/Professional
• Pentium II 400 MHz or equivalent processor (800 MHz recommended)
• 256 MB RAM
• 200 MB free hard-drive disk space, plus 100 MB per user
• 4 MB video card with DirectX support (800 × 600 resolution)
• SoundBlaster PCI/AC97 compatible sound card with DirectSound support (additional sound cards must be disabled)
• CD-ROM drive
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0+/Netscape 6.2+/Firefox 1.5+

Macintosh

• Apple Macintosh G3, G4 or G5 with 400 MHz processor (or higher)
• MacOS 10.1.4 or higher (10.2.6 recommended)
• 256 MB RAM
• 200 MB free hard-drive disk space, plus 100 MB per user
• 800 × 600 resolution display
• CD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 6.0+
• Netscape 6.2+/Safari 1.0+

Note: System requirements subject to change with patches and point releases.

Network Edition (v3)

Server for 30 to 1,000 concurrent users

• Windows 2000 or 2003 Server
• Intel Pentium IV 1.5 Ghz processor (2.0 GHz recommended)
• 512 MB RAM
• 80 GB free hard drive space (120 GB recommend)
• CD-ROM drive
• Ethernet LAN port
• 1.544 Mbps connection or better

Note: The server does not depend on any existing network services, such as those provided by Windows 2000/2003 network infrastructure. System requirements subject to change with patches and point releases.

Workstations

In order to run QuickReads Technology Edition and receive technical support from Pearson Education, your workstations must meet or exceed all the specifications listed below on either platform.

Windows

• Windows 2000, XP Home/Professional
• Pentium II 400 MHz or equivalent processor (800 MHz recommended)
• 10/100 MB Ethernet LAN port
• 256 MB RAM
• Microphone headset (included with purchase)
• 200 MB free hard-drive disk space, plus 100 MB per user
• 4 MB video card with DirectX support (800 × 600 resolution)
• SoundBlaster PCI/AC97 compatible sound card with DirectSound support (additional sound cards must be disabled)
• CD-ROM drive
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0+/Netscape 6.2+/Firefox 1.5+
• Fonts: Arial, Courier New, Comic Sans MS, Georgia, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana

Macintosh

• Apple Macintosh G3, G4 or G5 with 400 MHz processor (or higher)
• 10/100 MB Ethernet port
• MacOS 10.2.6 or higher
• Microphone headset with USB adapter (included with purchase)
• 256 MB RAM
• Available USB port
• 200 MB free hard-drive disk space, plus 100 MB per user
• 800 × 600 resolution display
• CD-ROM drive
• QuickTime 6.0+
• Netscape 6.2+/Safari 1.0+
• Fonts: Arial, Courier New, Comic Sans MS, Georgia, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana