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Educators’ First Choice for Proven Results: Fluency. Vocabulary. Comprehension.
The National
Fluency Challenge
QuickReads ®: The Proven
Fluency Advantage
The biggest obstacle to proficient
reading for most U.S. fourth graders
is fluency.
QuickReads ® is a research-based and classroom-validated program
that systematically increases fluency, builds vocabulary and
background knowledge, and improves comprehension. Through
a unique combination of text and consistent instructional
routine, QuickReads ® results in improved reading proficiency
for students at all ability levels.
Why? Because most struggling readers
spend most of their time and energy
trying to recognize even the most
common words, thus forgetting the
content of what they are reading. They
primarily focus on decoding.
By contrast, fluent readers read with ease
and expression. They recognize words
automatically and make connections
between what they are reading and
what they already know. They focus
on comprehension.
Fluency—the ability to read a text
accurately, quickly with proper expression,
or prosody—provides the bridge from
decoding to comprehension. For students
to achieve reading proficiency, they must
be able to combine the fundamental skills
of word recognition and comprehension
successfully to ensure that they can think
critically about what they read.
Research demonstrates that students
can build a solid fluency foundation
through instruction that:
◆ Provides multiple oral reading
opportunities.
◆ Applies a consistent comprehension
strategy.
◆ Supports students in making
connections between what they
are reading and what they know.
◆ Provides expressive models of fluent
reading.
Research demonstrates that
students build a solid fluency
foundation with QuickReads®.
Available in both dynamic print and technology editions,
students using QuickReads ® and QuickReads ® Technology
Edition have the advantage of using an effective program
that lays the groundwork for successful reading. And through
companion programs designed to afford students more time
with text, QuickReads ® Fluency Libraries and QuickReads ®
Become an Expert enable students to extend their knowledge
as they continue their journey to becoming fluent readers.
QuickReads ®:
◆ Builds reading success quickly and systematically with
a unique, research-based text model.
◆ Creates strong readers with a proven, consistent
instructional routine.
◆ Creates a stimulating, interactive learning environment
with advanced, speech-recognition technology.
◆ Heightens background knowledge through companion
programs designed to afford additional time with
accessible text.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
What Makes QuickReads ® Unique?
QuickReads ® is based on a unique method of Text, Technique, Time, and Technology™, that
is proven to accelerate reading achievement. When QuickReads ® print is coupled with the
advanced speech-recognition features of the QuickReads® Technology Edition, educators
can further maximize instruction to develop fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and
background knowledge.
These critical elements of reading proficiency are achieved through a unique combination
of attributes that constitute the QuickReads® formula for success:
TEXT
TECHNIQUE
T
TIME
TECHNOLOGY
Fosters development of oral reading skills through independent
practice of reading short, 1-minute informational text in both
print and technology.
Promotes the consistent development of comprehension strategies
though a research-based and validated instructional routine.
Delivers excellent results in just 15 minutes per day and makes
instructional time more efficient and productive through targeted
instruction.
Empowers students to work independently and receive instant
feedback. Speech-recognition technology provides intervention
whenever needed and monitors students’ progress on measures
such as accuracy, comprehension, and reading rate.
Table of Contents
The Fluency Challenge. . . inside front cover
The QuickReads®
Advantage. . . . . . . . . . . . inside front cover
QuickReads® in all Classrooms . . . . . . . . . . 2
The QuickReads® Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
QuickReads® Sample Pages
Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Technique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
QuickReads® Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
QuickReads® Become an Expert . . . . . . . . 23
Research and Authorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Response to Intervention. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Connected Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Ready Readers® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Celebration Press Reading. . . . . . . . . . . 28
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QuickReads ®
and the
English Language
Learner
QuickReads® helps you target the
needs of students with varying
levels of English proficiency. With
QuickReads®, you can:
N Help English language learners
master high-frequency and critical
content vocabulary through
practice and reinforcement.
N Build fluency and comprehension
through repeated readings and
monitoring.
N Build knowledge in social studies
and science via high-interest
nonfiction texts.
N Use self- and teacher-directed
assessment to measure progress
in all students and to provide
immediate feedback.
N 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.
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The QuickReads® Advantage
in All Classrooms
The QuickReads® solution connects active instruction,
independent reading, and content-area knowledge through
QuickReads® print and technology edition, Fluency Libraries,
and Become an Expert. It also offers important resources for
professional development, implementation training, and fluency
assessment through The Professional Development Resource for
Reading Fluency DVD, the QuickReads® PowerStart Training
CD, and the Reading Fluency Indicator.
By design, QuickReads® is flexible and adaptable to a variety
of settings so it can be used successfully to help students
across the spectrum of learning abilities. Since core instruction
is delivered by the teacher in just 15 minutes per day, school
districts may choose to implement QuickReads® for whole
class instruction, in intervention settings, and during afterschool and summer school programs.
The dynamic combination of print and technology, as well as
independent and teacher-led instruction, addresses a wide array
of learning styles to help students realize reading success.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The QuickReads ® Family
QuickReads® delivers a unique combination of interwoven components to improve reading
proficiency. The QuickReads® solution connects active instruction, independent reading,
and content-area knowledge through QuickReads® print and technology editions, Fluency
Libraries, and Become an Expert. Simply put, QuickReads® is the essential bridge to
comprehension.
INSTRUCTION
QuickReads ® print & technology editions provide robust instruction.
The dynamic combination of print and technology addresses a wide array of learning
styles and helps students realize reading success. This active instruction is provided
through QuickReads® print and technology editions.
COMPANION PROGRAMS
QuickReads ® Fluency Libraries & Become an Expert reinforce
fluency instruction through motivating, independent activities.
Companion programs such as QuickReads® Fluency Libraries and QuickReads®
Become an Expert enable students to extend the content-area knowledge and
vocabulary they have built through independent reading of accessible text and
inquiry-based activities.
TEACHER RESOURCES
The Fluency Professional Development DVD provides meaningful
support for educators.
QuickReads® also features built-in Professional Development for Fluency with the new
Professional Development Resource for Reading Fluency DVD that is included with all
QuickReads® print and technology packages, as well as a self-paced training CD, the
QuickReads® PowerStart Training, for quick and successful program implementation.
ASSESSMENT
The Reading Fluency Indicator provides quick, accurate
fluency assessment to drive instruction.
The Reading Fluency Indicator is a quick, individually-administered test
of oral reading fluency that measures rate, accuracy, comprehension,
and prosody. Assess each student in just 5–10 minutes, and receive
stanine scores for rate, quartile scores for accuracy, and cut scores for
comprehension. A miscue analysis provides a detailed understanding
of each student’s word recognition and comprehension skills.
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Instruction
QuickReads ® Print and Technology Editions
Offer a Unique, Research-based Text Model
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.
The QuickReads® Curriculum
Level
High-Frequency Words*
Phonics Patterns
Target Rate
(Words Per Minute)
Level A
300 most-frequently-used words
Single-syllable words with regular
short- and long-vowel patterns and
consistent spelling patterns
Book 1: 80 words
Book 2: 90 words
Book 3: 100 words
400 most-frequently-used words
Single-syllable words with regular shortand long-vowel patterns, r-controlled
vowels, and consistent spelling patterns
Book 1: 90 words
Book 2: 100 words
Book 3: 110 words
1,000 most-frequently-used words
Vowel patterns in single-syllable words
Book 1: 100 words
Book 2: 110 words
Book 3: 120 words
1,000 most-frequently-used words
Multisyllable words with inflected endings
Book 1: 110 words
Book 2: 120 words
Book 3: 130 words
2,500 most-frequently-used
words
Multisyllable words with inflected endings
Book 1: 120 words
Book 2: 130 words
Book 3: 140 words
5,000 most-frequently-used
words
Multisyllable words with inflected endings
Book 1: 130 words
Book 2: 140 words
Book 3: 150 words
(Early 2nd grade readability)
Level B
(2nd grade readability)
Level C
(3rd grade readability)
Level D
(4th grade readability)
Level E
(5th grade readability)
Level F
(6th grade readability)
Carroll, J.B., Davies, P., and Richman, B. (1971). Word Frequency Book. Boston, MA: Houghton-Mifflin. Zeno, S. M., Ivens, S. H., Millard, R.
T., & Duvvuri, R. (1995). The Educator’s Word Frequency Guide. New York: Touchstone Applied Science Associates, Inc.
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STUDENT EDITION
Text
Technique
Topics Reflect National and State Curriculum Standards
Time
Technology
QuickReads® Topics
Level
Science
Social Studies
A
Floating and Sinking
How Things Are Measured
Pets
Science on the Playground
Seasons
From Seeds to Plants
Solids, Liquids, & Gases
Stars
Your Five Senses
American Places
American Stories
Americans Who Dream
Homes Around the World
Lakes and Ponds
Places People Work
The Stone Age
Toys of Long Ago
The United States of America
B
Do Animals Talk?
Forces Around Us
Insects
Magnets
Rocks
Thinking Like a Scientist
Trees
Water and Us
Weather
Being a Citizen
Brave Americans
Children’s Games
Jobs Around Us
Life in Colonial America
Maps
Money
National Symbols
Transportation Then and Now
C
Animal Giants
Dinosaurs
Earthquakes
Hurricanes
Inventions
Plants
Simple Machines
The Solar System
Sound
American Heroes
Ancient Egypt
Celebrations
Economics
Native Americans
Oceans
Our National Government
Rain Forests
The Ways We Communicate
Animal Communities
Birds and Their Habitats
Cameras and Photography
Day and Night
Electricity
The Human Body
Taking Care of Our Earth
Volcanoes
Wind and Solar Energy
American Pathfinders
Ancient Rome
The Constitution of the
United States
European Explorers of
North America
Geography and How We Live
The History of Sports
Immigration to America
Natural Resources and the
Economy
Our North American
Neighbors
Air and the Atmosphere
Earth’s Moon
Food and Nutrition
Heat and Energy
How Light Works
The Laws of Motion
Marine Animals Without
Backbones
Minerals
Plants and People
The American Civil War
Ancient Civilizations of the
Americas
Civil Rights Leaders
The 50 American States
Managing Money
The Middle Ages
Rivers of the United States
The United States and the
World Community
The World’s Population
Cells
The Changing Earth
Computers
Constructing a Building
Environmental Disasters
Nervous System
Beneath the Ocean’s Surface
The Scientific Method
Symbiosis
American Pioneers
Ancient Greece
Celebrating Independence
The Depression Era
Managing Garbage
Purchasing Power
Speeches That Inspire
Wetlands
World War II
D
E
F
Print and Technology Components:
• Student Editions (Books 1, 2, and 3)
in both print and digital format
• Teacher Editions (for print and
technology)
• Read-Along CDs
• Placement Guide
• Software and headsets
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The Unique QuickReads ® Text Model
Develops automaticity with high-frequency words and develops key
content-area vocabulary and content knowledge.
Vocabulary words such as communicate and
information are introduced in the first reading
passage, defined in context, and reinforced through
repetition to consistently build important vocabulary.
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STUDENT EDITION
Text
Enables students to explore each topic in-depth
while reading five related passages.
Technique
Time
Technology
Sample pages from QuickReads® Student Edition Level B, Book 1, pages 52-61
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Comprehension Strategy Practice and Review
Ensures that students read for meaning through consistent comprehension reviews.
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STUDENT EDITION
Text
Technique
Time
Technology
Challenges students to use their
higher-order thinking skills and
solidify content-area knowledge
by making connections across
five passages.
Sample pages from QuickReads® Student
Edition Level B, Book 1, pages 62-65
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TEACHER EDITION
Consistent Instructional Routine
Promotes the consistent development of comprehension strategies
through a research-based and validated instructional routine that
systematically improves reading performance.
Nurtures strong readers
through a consistent, researchbased instructional routine.
Includes options for extending
the Instructional Routine.
Each kit comes with an easy-to-use
laminated Instructional Routine
card that provides teachers with
the proven QuickReads® formula
for success in the classroom.
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Laminated Instructional Routine Card
STUDENT EDITION
Text
Motivates students to improve fluency by tracking comprehension
and reading rate.
Technique
Time
Technology
Sample pages from QuickReads® Student
Edition Level B, Book 1, pages 95-96
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Placement and Ongoing Progress Monitoring
Provides benchmark passages for every level for easy placement and
ongoing progress monitoring.
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Sample pages from QuickReads® Placement Guide
TEACHER EDITION
Text
Helps you confidently place your students in the appropriate
QuickReads® level.
Technique
Time
Technology
Sample page from QuickReads® Placement Guide
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Optional Extension Activities for School and Home
Reinforces vocabulary skills, supports ESL/ELL needs, and builds content knowledge
through suggested activities for every QuickReads® topic.
Sample page from QuickReads® Teacher’s Resource Manual Level B, page 18
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TEACHER EDITION
Text
Encourages family involvement to contribute to student success.
Technique
Time
Technology
Sample Parent Guide pages from QuickReads® Placement Guide, pages 21-22
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TEACHER EDITION
Text
Quick and Easy to Implement
Technique
Time
Just 15 minutes per day in instructional time is all it takes to
maximize student gains with QuickReads®.
Technology
Teacher Pacing Options
The overall success of QuickReads® depends upon its consistent and
concentrated use over time.
For best results:
• Use QuickReads® at least three or four times a week to reinforce and
practice the instructional strategies.
• Focus on a different passage during each teaching session to complete
one level every 18 weeks.
• Choose a teaching option that best fits your students.
Pacing Options for QuickReads®
Option 1:
Continuous Use
Option 2:
Concentrated Periods
of Time
Option 3:
Summer School
Option 4:
After-School Program
Option 5:
For Extra Achievement
Program Coverage
Length of Time
1 passage per day,
5 days per week
18 weeks, or 1 semester
(completes one level)
1 passage per day,
5 days per week
6 weeks at the beginning of the school year
6 weeks at midyear
6 weeks before the end of the year
(completes one level)
2 passages per day,
5 days per week
6 weeks
(completes two books in one level)
2 passages per day,
4 days per week
12 weeks
(completes one level)
1 passage per day,
5 days per week
32 weeks or 2 semesters
(completes two levels)
QuickReads® lessons are
focused and engaging.
Live from a QuickReads®
3rd grade classroom lesson
in SouthEast Delco, PA.
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Instruction: Technology
TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW
Text
Motivate and empower students to become confident, fluent readers
through instant intervention and feedback.
Technique
Time
Technology
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.
Provide a personalized reading partner for every student with QuickReads’® advanced,
speech-recognition technology that:
N Fosters development of oral reading skills through self-paced practice and
instant feedback.
N Provides instant intervention to prompt pronunciation and correct errors.
N Helps language-proficient as well as ESL/ELL students model correct pronunciation
and phrasing.
N Assesses and records student progress on such measures as accuracy, comprehension,
and reading rate.
N Enables physically challenged children to access the content through CAST-approved
accessibility features.
Choose the technology solution that works
best for you.
To meet the spectrum of all possible implementation models,
QuickReads ® Technology Edition comes in a network or
stand-alone edition.
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.
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.
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Combines Advanced Technology and Educational Science so Students Become
The QuickReads ® Stand-Alone Technology Edition
Provides a personalized reading partner for every student that offers instant intervention and
models fluent reading.
Differentiates instruction with Spanish
vocabulary support and expanded
accessibility features.
Motivates visual learners
with striking images.
Provides vocabulary
help, including secondlanguage support in
Spanish, models correct
pronunciation, and uses
words in context.
Prompts pronunciation
of unknown words and
corrects errors.
Provides built-in
monitoring of students’
repeated readings.
Models natural, fluent
reading at the targeted
words-per-minute rate.
Allows students to
listen to themselves
and self-correct.
QuickReads® Technology Edition, Level C reading passage
Highlights passage
words read correctly
and those requiring
intervention.
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Teaches critical
content words.
Confident, Fluent Readers.
STUDENT EDITION
Text
Technique
Time
Motivates students to read independently and monitor their own fluency and
comprehension progress through immediate feedback. Ensures effectiveness of
instruction through continuous progress monitoring.
Technology
Notes key measures
such as rate, accuracy,
and comprehension.
Encourages students
to master a
QuickReads® lesson.
Details words requiring intervention
at first and last readings.
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The QuickReads ® Technology Network Edition
Reach Students More Easily and Report Progress Across the District
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.
N STUDENTS: Work on any computer workstation and access all levels of QuickReads®.
N TEACHERS: View student progress and immediately identify students who need additional help.
N 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.
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TEACHER REPORTS
Text
Rely on Advanced Reports to Inform Instruction
The latest enhancements include a “Fluency – Trend Line and Goal” report in which fluency
data are displayed in a line graph for each month while the trend line projects end-of-the-year
status. This report is generated by grade, class, or by student, and it plots performance against
norm-based goals over the school year. Use the report to determine how well your students
are progressing toward their grade-level fluency goal and to establish appropriate points of
intervention when necessary.
Technique
Time
Technology
Ensure effectiveness of
instruction through frequent
progress monitoring.
Instantly generate all
types of reports,
including Time on Task.
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Extending the Benefits of QuickReads® Through Companion Programs
Maximize Fluency and Comprehension
Through Additional Time with Text
QuickReads® Fluency Libraries
The perfect classroom companion to the QuickReads® print and technology
editions, these exciting nonfiction classroom libraries are designed to support
students in developing the critical skills of fluency, comprehension, and
vocabulary. Available in four levels, A–D, each library includes 18 motivating
titles that can be used for independent or small group reading.
Researched and authored by Dr. Elfrieda H. Hiebert, the books in the
QuickReads® Fluency Libraries are unique and foster these critical skills by:
N Presenting more opportunities to read with a high degree of success.
Each book is specifically written to develop automaticity and build
content-area vocabulary through a combination of 98% high frequency
words and words with a grade appropriate set of phonic/syllabic patterns
and 2% content-area words.
QuickReads® Fluency
Libraries Components
Each library includes:
• 108 books total — 9 science
title 6-packs, 9 social studies
title 6-packs
• 1 Teacher’s Resource Manual
• 1 audio CD collection
• Student bookmarks
• Classroom organizer.
N Including nonfiction, informational texts based on national standards.
Each library contains exciting science and social studies themed books
aligned to the topics presented in the QuickReads® print and technology
editions. Every book is full of new ideas that deepen background
knowledge and overall understanding of these important content areas.
N Motivating even the most struggling readers. Page-by-page, accessible text,
lively photos, and fun facts captivate readers and build their self-esteem
and confidence.
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Features the same unique text
model found in QuickReads®.
Expanding Knowledge Through Inquiry Activities
COMPANION PROGRAMS
Explore Popular QuickReads ® Topics In-Depth!
QuickReads® Become an Expert
Spark your students’ interest in exploring engaging topics with QuickReads® Become an Expert.
This program is designed to motivate your students to read more and expand their knowledge
about the popular topics presented in the QuickReads® print and technology editions. Become
an Expert high-interest books and student activity cards are perfect for independent reading,
literacy centers, and more!
With QuickReads® Become an Expert, students will:
• Develop expertise about exciting science and social studies topics presented in the
QuickReads® program—all correlated to national science and social studies standards
to meet accountability requirements.
• Build content knowledge through reading high-interest books and engaging in fun,
related activities to sustain interest.
• Encounter and learn new, topic-related vocabulary words to become proficient readers.
• Gain experience in a variety of activities that complement their reading—including
research, interviews, and field trips for a comprehensive approach.
• Develop confidence in their ability to pursue an interest so they will be motivated
to read.
• Reinforce learning when they share the knowledge they have learned with their
classmates.
QuickReads ® Become an Expert Components
Packages correspond to Levels A–D of the QuickReads®
program and include:
• 18 Expert Packs (3 sets each of 6 different packs)
• 18 Expert Logs
• 1 Teacher’s Resource Manual.
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The Research and Authorship Set QuickReads ® Apart
QuickReads ®: Founded on Research
QuickReads® is founded on the ground-breaking research of Dr. Elfrieda H. Hiebert that
explores the role text plays in developing fluency. According to Dr. Hiebert’s research,
both instructional strategies and type of text are important contributors to fostering
student fluency development.
Nationally, research studies have clearly demonstrated that use of
QuickReads® print and technology helps close the achievement gap
and enables students to meet or exceed performance standards.
QuickReads® ensures that children simultaneously develop the
critical benchmarks of proficient reading as identified by the
National Reading Panel (2000):
• Fluency
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension
• Background Knowledge.
Developed by the Experts
Dr. Elfrieda (Freddy) H. Hiebert,
researcher and author of
QuickReads®, is currently
Adjunct Professor at the
University of California,
Berkeley. She has worked
in the field of early reading
acquisition for 40 years and
has published more than 130
research articles, chapters in
edited volumes, and books
on how instruction and materials influence reading
acquisition, especially among low-income students.
Professor Hiebert’s model of accessible texts for
beginning and struggling readers—TEXT—has been
used to develop several reading programs, including
QuickReads®, the QuickReads® Technology Edition,
and Ready Readers®. Her current work focuses on the
difficulty of current beginning-reading textbooks and
on the design of appropriate curricula and texts for
English language learners.
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Dr. Marilyn Jager Adams,
Chief Scientist of
Soliloquy Learning Inc.,
is internationally regarded
for research and applied
work in the area of
cognition and education.
Recipient of the American
Educational Research
Association’s Sylvia
Scribner Award for
outstanding research, Dr. Adams’ contributions
include the landmark book Beginning to Read:
Thinking and Learning About Print (MIT Press).
QuickReads® Technology Edition is powered
by Soliloquy Learning’s speech-recognition
technology — founded on Dr. Adams’ research
and developed with her leadership. Dr. Adams is
cited in the 2000 Politics and Education Yearbook
as one of the five most influential people in the
national reading policy arena.
RESEARCH AND AUTHORSHIP
QuickReads®: Proven Effective
The Research Demonstrates…Consistent
Gains in Fluency, Comprehension, and
Vocabulary with QuickReads®.
In 2006, a study was conducted by The Great Plains
Institute of Reading and Writing (University of
Nebraska-Lincoln) with 1,484 students in grades
two through five of all learning abilities (below-, on-,
and above-grade level), including English language
learners. The study assessed students with pre- and post
tests at the beginning and end of the intervention
period to determine effectiveness.
The results of this study demonstrated that:
1. In all domains students receiving QuickReads®
instruction had higher growth in oral reading fluency,
comprehension, and vocabulary than those students
receiving regular classroom instruction.
2. QuickReads ® is an effective strategy for all students
in 2nd grade through 5th grades regardless
of their pre-test reading ability.
3. The use of technology in teaching reading fluency
further accelerated student gains for the majority
of students.
4. In the area of comprehension, the gains over the
control group were significant.
The Research Demonstrates…The Power of
Technology in Closing the Achievement Gap
In her research chapter, “The Promise of Automatic
Speech Recognition for Fostering Fluency Growth in
Children and Adults,” Dr. Marilyn Jager Adams outlines
the findings of her 2006 Framingham, MA, efficacy
study wherein fluency gains for students using the
technology edition of QuickReads® far exceeded those
gains among students in the control group. In a brief
17-week study in which actual reading time as measured
by the software was, on average, only 8 minutes per
session, Dr. Adams explains:
“In our study of grade 2–5 classrooms, those using
QuickReads® Technology for about 20 half-hour
sessions showed remarkable growth in fluency.
Their gains surpassed norm-based expectations
by as much as 40% or nearly half a school year.”
Dr. Adams’ study demonstrates the important
contributions technology can make towards closing
the literacy gap when it is properly integrated into
classroom instruction.
*Assessed by DIBELS
†Assessed by Gates-McGinitie Reading Comprehension
‡Assessed by Interactive Reading Assessment System – Rev. (IRAS-R)
For a more detailed review of these and other efficacy studies, please refer to The QuickReads® Research Compendium,
which can be found under the Pearson Research Evidence Series on the Pearson website at www.pearsonschool.com.
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RESEARCH
QuickReads® and Response to Intervention (RtI)
The recently reauthorized IDEA law requires that states must permit districts to adopt alternative
models such as the Response to Intervention (RtI) model rather than simply identify children with
special needs. The RtI model proposes that earlier prevention and intervention through data-based
decision making will result in fewer children identified for special education classes.
QuickReads® is an appropriate and effective solution for students in all tiers of intervention:
Tier 1 – Provides active fluency instruction as part of a good, solid reading curriculum for
all students.
Tier 2 – Provides additional, targeted, small-group intervention for students demonstrating gaps
in reading rate, accuracy, or comprehension.
Tier 3 – Provides additional strategic, intense, and sustained small group (or individual with the
Technology Edition) intervention at least twice a week for students who are more
significantly delayed.
RtI calls for student performance data to be gathered easily and frequently so that the effectiveness
of the instructional strategies being used can be readily ascertained. Based on the extensive
performance data available from QuickReads ®, modifications in teaching and learning models
can be made, as necessary, in order to ensure student progress.
Easy-to-access performance
monitoring reports from any
networked computer can
inform instructional decisions.
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CONNECTED INSTRUCTION
Support Beginning Readers with the Research-Based
Pre-Fluency Program — Ready Readers®
A Beginning Literacy Program with a Built-in Phonics and Word-Study Curriculum
Researched and authored by Dr. Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Dr. Connie Juel, and Rosann Englebretson.
Ready Readers® provides a balanced approach to literacy and:
• Supports teachers in meeting the Reading First initiative by providing instruction in
phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.
• Provides an abundant supply of expertly leveled, accessible books designed to help
beginning readers experience success and gain confidence as readers.
• Builds a body of word-study skills that beginning readers need to access text and become
independent readers.
• Increases students’ knowledge through focused practice in reading and writing highfrequency words and in the application of phonics skills.
• Offers an opportunity for beginning readers to share their reading and writing at home.
Take your first steps to fluency with Ready Readers®!
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CONNECTED INSTRUCTION
Build Independent Readers One Good Habit at a
Time with Celebration Press Reading: Good Habits,
Great Readers ™
Researched and authored by Doug Fisher PhD, Nancy Frey PhD, and Adria Klein, PhD
Use QuickReads® in conjunction with Celebration Press Reading: Good Habits, Great
Readers™ to ensure that your students succeed as independent readers. Celebration Press
Reading is a unique research-based K–5 reading program that provides teaching and
classroom materials to support whole-class and small-group reading instruction. Celebration
Press Reading is strong enough to be a core text but flexible enough to work with other
reading programs.
Celebration Press Reading: Good Habits, Great Readers™:
• Organizes reading instruction around research-based habits and strategies of proficient
readers for effective instruction.
• Provides a comprehensive scope and sequence for structure and continuity across the
grade levels.
• Helps teachers teach reading through an engaging, accessible teacher support system that
is written for busy teachers, which includes professional development at point-of-use.
• Seamlessly connects to DRA®2, QuickReads ®, and Words Their Way™: Word Study
in Action.
Building Great Readers, One Good Habit at a Time.
Visit www.GoodHabitsGreatReaders.com for more information.
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