INSTRUCTORS

• 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. The framework is complete and usable as written, yet flexible enough for instructors to adapt to meet student needs or scheduling challenges.
• Data-Driven – Reading performance data is taken daily, and vocabulary mastery and vocabulary mastery and comprehension are recorded with each passage. 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 or less a day, 3 or more days a week.
• Simple – The Great Leaps Fluency Builder Series can be implemented by anyone who can read fluently. 

STUDENTS

• Captivating Stories – Great Leaps uses high-interest, age-appropriate material that keeps students engaged through learning about the incredible nature of the world around them.
• 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 – Developing fluency and comprehension of challenging nonfiction passages enhances student performance in all classes. 
• Behavior – Academic confidence and relevance often leads to a decrease in referrals and an increase in in-class engagement.
• Fluency – Once students have achieved an functional independent reading level, demands on their fluency only increase from nonfiction texts making continued practice and growth necessary for continued academic success.

PROGRAM

• Students work through 12 nonfiction passages complete with images, vocabulary words, and five days of comprehension questions, writing prompts and activities. 
• This package contains an instructor copy and student workbook to enable the instructor and student to sit across from one another, allowing the student to focus on their own copy and have dedicated table to see their growth with each reading and complete the writing prompts, vocabulary matching tests and fact or opinion tests.

PROCEDURE

• Each session, the student will read the entire passage while being timed. Each passage will be read five times.
• The time, words per minute read, and errors are recorded each day at the bottom of the student workbook.
• Each day, students will work on mastering the 10 vocabulary words provided with each story.
• Comprehension Development Questions and activities are asked to guide discussion around the story and develop students' ability to recall, make text to text and text to self connections. 

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 pivotal 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

Fluency Builder Series - Amazing Animals (Volume 1) PACKAGE INCLUDES

• One Amazing Animals (Volume 1) instructor book and one student workbook
  
• 12 stories with pictures in the instructor book
  
• 60 days of comprehension development questions and activities
• 120 dedicated vocabulary words with definitions with a matching test in the student workbook
• 60 fact or opinion questions with a quiz provided in the student workbook
• 48 truth or lie discussion questions 
• Over 24 writing prompts
• Over 24 activities 

Sample Sections

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