Does Great Leaps bring students up to grade level in reading?
Great Leaps brings children to an independent level of reading this may, or may not be at their grade level. When a child reaches the 4th/5th grade reading level, we believe an independent level has been reached at which the environment becomes important in further reading progress. Motivation becomes more important than reading instruction. Tactics move from instructional to motivational. Many students have moved considerably past the 5th grade level of reading while using Great Leaps because they had advanced skills which had been impeded because of a class of errors which were remediated. For example, children who have had high rates of sight word errors make substantive reading score gains when this problem area is adequately remediated.
