The QuickReads Advantage

The QuickReads Advantage Posted 05/16/2008 Permanent Link

Integrated Non-Fiction Content

QuickReads features informational non-fiction text based on National Standards for Science and Social Studies

• Provides background knowledge in Science and Social Studies

• Allows students to gain reading proficiency and experience in extracting information from the text they are reading

• Additional practice reading based on the Dr. Hiebert’s TExT Model of reading and more content depth is available in the QuickReads Fluency Library

• Even more content depth is available in the Become an Expert sets

How Content and the QuickReads work together to build vocabulary

Most of the words in the QuickReads passages, 98%, are drawn from the list of most frequent words or feature regular phonics and syllable patterns. By practicing reading with these words, students build automaticity and word-recognition skills allowing them to focus on meaning rather than the task of decoding words.

The remaining 2% of words in QuickReads represent the content-specific vocabulary for each QuickReads topic. Because each topic comprises several text passages (five in the original QuickReads program, four in QReads), these words appear repeatedly, allowing students to gain expertise with necessary content-specific vocabulary.