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Great Leaps - Building Reading Fluency, Phonics Skills, and Motivation!
Great Leaps - Building Fluency, Phonics Skills,
and Motivation!
 
The New Edition of
Great Leaps Reading with Eliciting Expressive
Language Now Available for Elementary, Middle and
High
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Great Leaps Reading
Great Leaps Reading uses proven instructional
tactics with powerful motivators to remediate a variety
of reading problems. Efficient in both cost and time
expenditure, Great Leaps Reading has been recognized for
years as a research-based program which enables students
of all ages to make significant strides in reading
fluency and reach an independent reading level. Students with
reading problems in all fifty states have responded with
significant, measurable gains in their reading and
related skills.
Students work individually with an
instructor and the materials for less than ten minutes
per day (three days per week minimum). The materials
(one instructor manual and one student
notebook) are age appropriate and comprehensive. One
purchase will provide the necessary materials for up to
three years worth of remedial work for a student. For
example, the high school book can take a non-reading
high school student to an independent reading status.
(Depending on the severity of the reading problem, a one
to two year intervention is most often
implemented.)
Schools and tutors should purchase one Great
Leaps Reading Package (two binders) per instructor.
Parents need to purchase only the Reading Program (one
binder) The K-2 manual does not require a student
edition, as most of the work for our emergent readers is
oral. Supplementary stories for all levels are presently
available in the two Great Leaps Stories Collections,
one for elementary students and one for all students
(elementary to high school). These collections contain
the published stories as well as a considerable number
of additional stories. The Stories Collections are not
necessary to implement Great Leaps – sufficient stories
are included in the programs and packages to meet all
anticipated needs.
Great Leaps is divided into three major areas:
(1) Phonics:
developing and mastering essential sight-sound
relationships and/or sound awareness skills; (2) Sight Phrases:
mastering high frequency words while developing and
improving focusing skills and the ability to “chunk”
small pieces of meaning; and (3) Reading
Fluency: using age-appropriate stories specifically
designed to build reading fluency, reading motivation,
and proper intonation. The Stories section now includes
an intervention in developing expressive language and
reading comprehension (in the Elementary Book), with
expressive language development being emphasized in the
Middle and High School
programs.
The Phonics takes students from identifying
sounds in isolation to being able to sound out cvc,
cvcc, and cvce patterns. The section concludes with work
in prefixes and suffixes. This enables students to (with
contextual clues) decode unknown words with a high
degree of success. Great Leaps Phonics is a simplified
intervention allowing parents and paraprofessionals to
implement an effective phonics intervention without
extensive training.
The Sight Phrases uses phrases to
teach high frequency words while significantly
increasing focusing skills. Teaching high frequency
words in isolation has not worked for most students with
reading problems. Though the student learns the word in
isolation, the high rate of contextual errors continued.
The Great Leaps approach of using sight phrases helps to
minimize the age old problems of readers continuously
missing words such as: these, them, of, off, from, etc. Great Leaps was
the first major published program to actively use “sight
phrases” for the express purpose of sight (high
frequency) word generalization. The latest addition now
includes substantive work in over 750 of the most
commonly used words in conversational English, as well
as some common abbreviations and
symbols.
The stories have all been designed and written by
Kenneth Campbell to not only significantly increase
reading fluency, but also motivate students to continue
reading. Point of view, humor, rhyme, and rhythm are all
designed to contribute to a powerful fluency-building
intervention. With many decisions being imbedded into
the materials themselves, the intervention, though very
simple to use, gets results often at a higher level than
programs involving more expense, time and
training.
As students achieve goals in each area of
concern, they advance to a more challenging next step.
Each step in Great Leaps has been designed to follow the
previous step in a very organized, consecutive manner.
Minute distinctions in readability are accounted for in
Great Leaps, while other programs tend to lump all of a
grade level’s stories together. From our perspective,
there is considerable difference between a story at
third grade, first month and third grade, ninth month.
For the first time in their lives, many students begin
experiencing consistent reading success and respond
accordingly.
Great Leaps Reading has been researched and used
successfully in schools across the country. Great Leaps
has the support of special education and reading
specialists in many universities. One of the differences
of Great Leaps is that decisions have been built into
the materials, allowing parents, volunteers, and
classroom assistants (as well as professional staff) to
successfully implement current research-based practices.
As resources dedicated to remedial interventions
continue to dry up, Great Leaps allows parents and small
communities to do what society may have chosen to
ignore. Great Leaps is research-based and will generate
results. If better, more sophisticated interventions
arise, which naturally they will, it is the job of
educators to take the intervention and make it available
to the public. Interventions and philosophies that have
proven themselves across the board failures have no room
in our schools and homes.
Great Leaps is not complicated. A typical
training session for future practitioners takes about
three hours. Most users find the instructions that come
with the program adequate to begin implementation
without training. Although the appearance and strategies
appear simple, Great Leaps has its origins in over
thirty years of instructional research and practice from
the world of precision assessment and
teaching.
Areas that have implemented the Great Leaps
Reading Program (from
New York
City to
Lexington,
Kentucky) have shown
similar results. At-risk and dysfunctional readers are
learning to read - many in a short period of time.
(Approximately 25% of the students presently surveyed
showed two to five years of oral reading growth in less
than six months!) When Great Leaps has been utilized
with other programs in a coordinated, highly
professional intervention, dyslexic students have shown
tremendous growth. Great Leaps has chosen to take aim at
specific areas of reading, and do that well. Expressive
language activities were added when it was noted that
across the country many student comprehension scores
were topping out at a third grade level. Analysis showed
us that the student expressive language skills were also
at about the third grade level. Common sense tells us
that students cannot comprehend beyond their ability to
speak, so to break down the ‘third grade comprehension
wall’, expressive language skills must be vastly
improved. Great Leaps responds to this challenge through
(with) the incorporation of expressive language
activities. These activities serve as a gateway to
((gain access to)) the student’s previous experience, as
well as to present and reinforce content related
vocabulary. (…or Expressive language activities are
designed to provide the opportunity to tap on the
student previous experience, as well as to present and
reinforce content related vocabulary.) By strengthening
the student’s vocabulary and expressive language skills,
Great Leaps hopes to help bring down ‘the third grade
wall’.
Purchase orders, checks, Master
Card, Visa, Discover, and American Express are accepted
on our order form. Orders are shipped
Best
Way (Parcel Post, UPS, etc.)
and usually received within two weeks of being received
for domestic orders. Priority postage and handling is
available at an additional charge. International orders
need to e-mail or call to obtain shipping options and
prices.
Great Leaps
Math
Cecil, D. Mercer, Kenneth D.
Mercer, & Kenneth U. Campbell
The Great Leaps Math Program focuses on building
fluency in the basic facts, including addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and division. It features
concrete lessons (using manipulative objects) and
representational lessons (using student drawings) to
help the student understand the concepts behind the four
basic math operations. Once the student demonstrates
understanding through the concrete and representational
lessons, fluency-building lessons begin through
one-minute timings of oral and written student responses
to math facts. The student repeats the one-minute
timings until a standard practice rate on oral timings
and a standard fluency rate on written timings are
achieved.
During the 5- to 7-minute daily session, the
instructor follows the word GREAT as a mnemonic device
to conduct a five-step lesson plan. The student moves
from oral practice lessons to written fluency lessons to
written generalization fluency lessons. Results of the
timings are recorded on a math chart, and goals are
provided according to the age of the student. The use of
rules and relationships throughout the lessons enhances
mastery of the math facts. The program consists of three
instructor manuals and three student workbooks: Addition
and Subtraction Facts 0 to 9, Addition and Subtraction
Facts 10 to 18, and Multiplication and Division Facts.
Placement tests and directions for instructional math
games are provided. The program has been field-tested,
and the data indicate excellent student progress and
teacher
acceptance.
To order by phone
in Canada
Dial 352-271-9720
In Israel
Dial (02)-641-8724
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