QuickReads Fluency Libraries

LEVEL A OUR NATIONAL PARKS

Pique studentsâ interest with engaging nonfiction science and social studies books that will keep them reading! The more students read, the more their fluency, comprehension and vocabulary skills will improve.The QuickReads Fluency Libraries follow the same successful text model used in QuickReads providing students an opportunity for independent reading!

Features and Benefits

QuickReads® Libraries will:

• Increase students’ background knowledge of key science and social studies content by extending and further developing each QuickReads® topic.
• Support and extend the fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary skills students gained while using QuickReads®.
• Experience the phonics patterns and the most-frequently-used words in each QuickReads® grade level because it was designed with the same phonics “curriculum.”
• Practice the key vocabulary introduced and reinforced in the QuickReads®.

Research and Validity

strong>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).