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Diarmuid, Inc. is proud to include a
Great Leaps Digital Timer
in our growing list of products. The Great Leaps timer accurately
times from one to ninety-nine minutes. What makes the Great
Leaps Timer superior is an option to change the beep to a
blinking light if desired. |
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The Video Journal of Education
out of Sandy, Utah, has completed "Reading for Older
Struggling Student: Program 1: Achieving Great Leaps in
Reading” and “Program 2: Great Leaps in the Classroom."
These superior tapes feature Great Leaps in action across
the nation: Utah, North Carolina, Maine, and Florida. They
also feature explanations and training information by Dr.
Cecil D. Mercer (University of Florida), Dr. Candice Bray
(Camden, Maine), Dr. Betty Beacham (East Carolina
University) as well as Kenneth Campbell (Gainesville,
Florida) and Fran DeFalco (Anthony, Florida). Call
800/572-1153 for further information or view the site at
http://www.schoolimprovement.com/products/index.cfm?productId=1103. Please inform them you
found out about their program from the Great Leaps website. |
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Great Leaps is significantly presented in the following
two major journal articles:
(1) Mercer, Cecil D., Campbell, Kenneth U., Miller, W.David,
Mercer, Kenneth D., and Lane, Holly B. Effects of a
Reading Fluency Intervention for Middle Schoolers with
Specific Learning Disabilities. Learning Disabilities
Research and Practice, 15(4), 179-189. 2000.
(2) Meyer, Marianne. Repeated Reading: An Old Standard is
Revisited and Renovated. Perspectives, 28(1),
15-18. 2002.
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Great Leaps Featured in Several
Journals
Supporting Great Leaps data have been featured and are being published in several
distinguished educational journals. All concerned studies presently show Great Leaps
Reading to be an innovative, fluency building program of note.
Fluency, a neglected element in many
reading programs, is an essential component of reading. Great Leaps Reading
recognizing this, places significant emphasis upon fluency, not only in its oral reading
component, but in all the components of the program.
Tutors (volunteers, high school and
university students, and classroom teaching assistants) have, after training and quality
supervision, achieved significant results using Great Leaps Reading. Communities in
schools of North Carolina, RSVP in Lexington, Kentucky, and America Reads in Gainesville,
Florida have all noted consistent successes.
Several prison systems are using
prisoners to teach/tutor other prisoners with the Great Leaps Reading Adult Program.
Classroom assistants using the program have become invaluable allies in bringing students
with reading problems to success. Lives are being changed as students of all ages achieve
basic literacy.
Improved reading comprehension is an
essential goal of the Great Leaps Reading Program, though it's not tested daily. Research
(Tenenbaum and Wolking, 1989) shows the Great Leaps strategies to improve reading speed and
inflection are essential components in improving reading comprehension. "...the
combination of high oral reading rate with inflection, a condition approximating
conversational speech, increased both the accuracy and speed of the
verbal responding (comprehension), more than any other combination
of variables." |
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