INSTRUCTORS
- Affordable – Just $169 per annual student license
- Adaptable – Great Leaps can be implemented before, during, or after school with staff or even volunteers
- Data-Driven – Charts are kept to gauge student progress and can be used to predict future growth
- Efficient – All it takes is 15 minutes a day, 3-5 days a week
- Simple – Great Leaps has been implemented successfully by specialists, teachers, paraprofessionals, and volunteers
STUDENTS
- Fun Stories – Great Leaps only uses high-interest material to make reading fun
- Attention Span – Working just 15 minutes a day means students stay more focused and engaged
- Improved Confidence – Individualized attention and positive reinforcement builds confidence and motivation
- Academic Growth – Learning to read improves student performance in all classes
- Behavior – Academic confidence often leads to a decrease in referrals
- Fluency – Research shows our students average 2 years of instructional grade level reading growth per year
PROGRAM
- Alphabet, phonics, phrases, and stories exercises get increasingly difficult efficiently taking the student to an independent reading level
- Access for 1 calendar year with automatic charting, fidelity warnings, and the ability to transfer a license if a student moves or graduates the program
PROCEDURE
- Instructor administers three 1-minute timings in Phonics, Sight Phrases, and Stories
- Word count and errors are marked and automatically charted after each timing
- Ask 2-5 Comprehension Development Questions to build comprehension, in-depth thinking, vocabulary, and expressive language
PROVEN TEACHING METHODS
- Immediate Correction when an error is made
- Modeling sections the student is struggling with using the neural impress method
- Constant positive reinforcement to build confidence and motivation
RESEARCH & EVIDENCE BASED
- The Effects of a Fluency Intervention Program on the Fluency and Comprehension Outcomes of Middle-School Students with Severe Reading Deficits by Sally A. Spencer California State University; Northridge and Franklin R. Manis University of Southern California
- Effects of a Reading Fluency Intervention for Middle Schoolers with Specific Learning Disabilities by Cecil D. Mercer, Kenneth U. Campbell, M. David Miller, Kenneth D. Mercer, and Holly B. Lane
- Served over 500,000 students for over 20 years
- Utilizes precision teaching methods
INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION
- The most important thing in a student's progress is an engaged instructor
- Positive reinforcement from an instructor is what builds a student's confidence and improves their relationship with learning and education
- One-on-one instruction ensures the student’s focus and effort whereas a computer program alone cannot
- Teaching practices such as modeling and immediate correction are also best done by a caring instructor
READING LICENSE INCLUDES
- One year transferable license to the Great Leaps Reading Program
- 40 Alphabet Lessons
- 107 Phonics Lessons
- 80 Phrases Lessons
- K-5, 6-8, and 9-12 stories with comprehension development questions.