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Overview | Background and
Research | Quick60 Pilot | Teacher Support
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Quick60 is a reading program that ensures literacy learning for all students. The books are sequential and leveled so you can use them as part of your classroom. You can also use
them in conjunction with the Quick60 lesson plans to catch up students, and to assist students for whom English is not the first language. To appeal to older students, the books are all factual.
The Quick60 program is well researched and is currently being trialed in some schools in low socio-economic areas. The program can be used with small groups of up to five students and can be implemented by a
teacher or a tutor without further training.
Each Quick60 lesson plan is very explicit. Each lesson has seven components that remain consistent throughout the program. These are Quick Quiz, New Word, Quick Read, Quick Check, Quick Write, New Skill, and New Book. Emphasis is given to reading and spelling. A new skill
that draws the students attention to print and helps them spell, is introduced in each lesson in the Alphabets Books and Factual Books Set 1. Each lesson also provides for fluency practice, comprehension, vocabulary instruction and writing. Subsequent lessons provide opportunities
for revision and consolidation.
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Background and Research
Research by Iversen, Tunmer and Chapman (Journal of Learning Disabilities, Sept/Oct 2005, Vol 38/5) tested a modified Reading Recovery program for groups of up to three students without
compromise to any of the factors influencing reading development.
Following on from this Sandra Iversen has used her experience as a Reading Recovery™ Teacher Leader, her PhD research, and her educational publishing knowledge to further refine this research to support a one-on-five
teaching methodology. Sandra has developed specific books and teacher support material to create this powerful intervention/prevention Quick60 program.
For further research information on the Quick60 program please click
here
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Quick60 Pilot
The Quick60 intervention program is currently being trialed in some schools in low socio-economic areas with a high percentage of ethnic minority students. To view the latest results from the Quick60 pilot
case studies please click here
Literacy Specialist, Carol Goldsmith, is running the program at Edmund Hillary School and is excited by the potential for the program to make a life changing difference for kids who are struggling to
read.
Carol Goldsmith comments:
"The Quick60 series is especially suitable for our second wave at risk readers who continue to work on acquiring early reading strategies. Unfortunately and understandably these children associate the everyday
early reading books with their ongoing failure in reading because they know beginning readers use them. To have a new series that is age appropriate connects to the world they can relate to and crosses all cultural boundaries, is absolutely
fantastic."
Early results from this trial are encouraging and correlate with testing currently being undertaken in the UK and already completed
in the USA.
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FREE on-line teacher support material include comprehensive lesson plans, which outline the lesson and guide you through the program. On-line teachers support material also include lesson summaries, student assessment, spelling cards, high-frequency word cards, cut-up sentences, and color-coded check sheets, so teachers can see at a glance what has previously been taught and what is new learning.
For questions and answers on the Quick60 program click here
For information on how to catch up struggling readers click here
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