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Great Leaps Reading Program

Great Leaps Reading Program. Lindsey Calabrese Emily Lewandowski. What is it?. Not designed to specifically teach reading Supplementary reading program for individuals of all ages who are at risk for or have significant reading problems

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Great Leaps Reading Program

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  1. Great Leaps Reading Program Lindsey Calabrese Emily Lewandowski

  2. Whatis it? • Not designed to specifically teach reading • Supplementary reading program for individuals of all ages who are at risk for or have significant reading problems • Students measured beyond the 4th/5th grade reading level should not need Great Leaps • Emphasizes fluency, with the assumption that comprehension will improve as the child becomes a more fluent reader • Includes progress monitoring chart

  3. T/F • (1) This program is designed to teach reading. • (2) Students reading beyond the fifth grade level would not benefit from this program.

  4. Reading Competence • Efficient automatic word identification, allows the brain to focus more attention on comprehension and less on physically reading the word

  5. How it works • Teachers, paraprofessionals, or volunteers administer the lessons • One-to-one fashion • 5-7 minute practice sessions • Minimum of three days per week • Student reads one timed reading from each section including phonics, sight phrases, and stories • Each reading is timed for one-minute • Goal is for the student to read each page with no more than 2 errors

  6. Questions • (3) Minimum days a week needed? • (4) How much time does the examiner allow for each probe? • (5) How many different categories of probes are there? • (6) What is the error goal?

  7. Error Correction • Errors are: • Verb tense changes • Loss of place • Omitted lines/words • Errors are not: • Dialectical differences • Speech impairments • Self-corrections • Immediate • Model the correct response • Never punish errors. Instead encourage the student to “sound it out” or “give it a try” or ask, “What do you think it is?” • When mastery is attained on a page, the student “leaps” to the next page of slightly more difficult material

  8. T/F - An error is…… (7) Self-correction (8) Verb-tense change (9) Omitted line

  9.   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 sight words while developing and improving focusing skills • (3) Reading Fluency: using age-appropriate stories specifically designed to build reading fluency, reading motivation, and proper intonation.

  10. Name the three major areas that Great Leaps targets. • (10) • (11) • (12)

  11. Phonics • Identifying sounds in isolation • Sounding out cvc (rat), cvcc (rack), and cvce (rake) patterns • Enables students to decode unknown words with a high degree of success

  12. The Sight Phrases • Uses phrases to teach sight words while significantly increasing focusing skills • Teaching high frequency words in isolation has not worked for most students with reading problems • Uses frequently missed site words such as these, them, of, off, from, etc. 

  13. Stories • Increase reading fluency • Motivate students to want to continue reading • Uses point of view, humor, rhyme, and rhythm

  14. Monitoring Progress - Student progress is monitored, charted, and rewarded on a daily basis

  15. Name one advantage to a program like this? • (13)

  16. Advantages • Easily implemented • Can be used successfully by a wide variety of professionals, paraprofessionals, and volunteers • Requires only 5-10 minutes of intervention per day per student • Student progress is monitored, charted, and rewarded, thus increasing student motivation • Inexpensive

  17. Cautions • Great Leaps is designed to be a fluency-building program, not a complete reading program. • The Five Big Ideas include: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension • Phonics are not taught explicitly • practiced within a fluency context • Phonemic awareness, vocabulary, and comprehension are not directly addressed • However, Great Leaps stresses that increased fluency can produce broad benefits in reading ability, including improved grade-level reading scores and increased reading comprehension

  18. Training & Ordering • Training videos and/or trainers provide a 3 hour initial training for Great Leaps • Most users find the instructions which come with the program adequate to begin implementation without training • Assistance is available through direct contact with the authors via phone or electronic mail • One Great Leaps Reading Package per instructor • For each level, kits contain an instructor’s manual, phonics probes, sight word lists, and oral reading selections

  19. Program Levels (& Cost) Primary (K-2): $66.00 Intermediate (3-5): $110.00 Middle School (6-8): $110.00 High School (9-12): $110.00 Adult : $110.00 • Purchase the program at your child’s social level, not reading level

  20. How much do these cost…. • (14) Primary • (15) Middle School

  21. Which level would you buy? • (16) Fifth grader half-way through his/her fifth grade year of school? • (17) First grade student? • (18) Ninth grade student reading at a fifth grade level? • (19) Tenth grade student reading at a seventh grade level?

  22. Contact Information • Diarmuid, Inc, P.O. Box 357580 Gainsville, FL 32635 • US Toll Free: (877) GRLEAPS (457-3277) • info@greatleaps.com • www.greatleaps.com

  23. Bonus…. • What state is Great Leaps located?

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