Quick 60 Reading Intervention Program by Mark Iversen

Quick 60 Prevention/Intervention Reading Program

Background and Research

Quick 60 is a fast and easy-to-administer prevention/intervention program designed to have students

reading on grade level in 60 quick lessons or less.
Quick 60 builds on the Florida research of Iversen and Tunmer (Journal of Learning Difficulties, Sept
2005, Vol 35/5) which tested a modified Reading Recovery program for groups of up to three
students without compromise to any of the factors influencing reading development. Phonemic
awareness, phonics, comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency are all integral parts of the Quick 60
program which also incorporates writing, spelling, and group dynamics.
Instructional Model
A simple instructional model has been developed so that teachers, tutors, and/or coaches can
successfully implement the Quick 60 program without further training.
Each 40-minute lesson has six components each building on the previous one. These include fast
reading and writing of high frequency words in isolation, fluent reading practice, checking on-going
reading development, spelling, acquiring a new skill, and practicing it while reading connected
text.
Lesson Components
Lesson Component Purpose Time in minutes
Quick Quiz Builds skills fluency 3
Quick Read Builds reading fluency 5
Quick Check Monitors ongoing reading development 6
Quick Write Builds writing strategies 6

New Skill Teaches new reading skills explicitly and systematically 10

New Book Provides practice for new skills on connected text 10

Materials
Foundation Pack
This pack is designed to be used in Pre K and Kindergarten and also with students in higher grades
who do not have basic reading skills. It includes -
8 big books that teach the following phonemic awareness skills
rhyme awareness word awareness
syllable awareness alliteration
concepts about print onset rime
phoneme blending phoneme segmentation
26 student books that teach the 26 alphabet letter names and sounds, and 26 basic high-frequency
words.
Grade-Level Packs
Grades 1 3 each contain 60 carefully leveled decodable factual books.
Grades 4 5 contain fewer books divided into 60 lessons.
Teacher Support Material
The teacher support material includes the following:
simple pre and post tests
a program scope and sequence
lesson plans describing what is to be taught in each lesson, and how to teach it
copies of each text showing the teacher what the students should be able to read given the skills
that have been previously taught. All teacher support material comes free with the Quick 60
program.
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