INSTRUCTORS

• Affordable – One package and instructor can be used with multiple students for multiple years.
• Adaptable – Great Leaps can be implemented easily as a parent or in an entire district, utilizing paraprofessionals, volunteers, or even mentorship programs with older students.
• Data-Driven – Equal ratio charts are kept to gauge student progress. These can be used to predict future student growth and help greatly in writing IEP's or discussing student progress over time. 
• Efficient – Implementation takes just 15 minutes a day, 3 or more days a week.
• Simple – Great Leaps can be implemented by anyone who can read fluently. 

STUDENTS

• Fun Stories – Great Leaps uses high-interest, age-appropriate material that makes reading fun.
• Attention Span – Working just 15 minutes a day keeps students more focused and engaged.
• Improved Confidence – Individualized attention and positive reinforcement build confidence and motivation.
• Academic Growth – Learning to read improves student performance in all classes
• Behavior – Academic confidence often leads to a decrease in referrals and an increase in in-class engagement.
• Fluency – Research has shown 2 years of growth per year on average when implementing Great Leaps with struggling readers in school.

PROGRAM

• Phonics, High-Frequency Word Phrases, and Stories exercises get increasingly more difficult, efficiently taking the student from their current level to a 5th grade or higher independent reading level.
• The package contains an instructor and student manual to allow the instructor and student to sit across from one another, allowing the student to focus on their own copy while the instructor marks errors and follows the student's reading.

PROCEDURE

• The instructor administers 3 one-minute timings: one each in Phonics, High-Frequency Word Phrases, and Stories.
• Words read per minute and errors are charted on an equal ratio chart after each timing.
• Comprehension Development Questions are asked to spark discussion around the story and build the students' expressive language abilities in addition to their comprehension of the text.

PROVEN TEACHING METHODS

• Great Leaps is based on the principles of precision teaching, and the behavioral science of reading.
  
• Great Leaps uses immediate Correction when errors are made.
• Great Leaps uses modeling small sections where the student has struggled, using the neurological impress method.
• Great Leaps utilizes constant positive reinforcement to build confidence and motivation. Every effort has been made to eliminate punishers.

RESEARCH & EVIDENCE-BASED

• Great Leaps is aligned with the science of reading and utilizes precision teaching methods from applied behavior analysis.
• 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 650,000 students since being first published in 1995. 
  

INDIVIDUALIZED INSTRUCTION

• An engaged instructor is a pivitol factor for student growth
• Positive reinforcement from an instructor builds student confidence and improves their relationship with learning and education
• One-on-one instruction ensures the student’s focus and effort, where a computer program alone cannot
• Teaching practices such as modeling and immediate correction are also best done by a caring instructor

ELEMENTARY PACKAGE INCLUDES

• One Elementary instructor and student copy
  
• 95 Phonics Lessons 
• 66 Phrases Lessons
• 104 Stories with Multi-Sensory Comprehension Development Questions

Sample Sections

Click to Open the Great Leaps Reading Sample Packet