We provide up to 2 makeup sessions per month as long as you provide our team and your tutor a 24-hour notice via text or email. We also know things like power outages, internet issues, or stomach viruses can hit at a moment's notice, so long as you make an effort to communicate with our team, we will provide a makeup session for you.

That answer is specific to each child! Our goal is to create STRONG independent readers with a foundation that will allow them to continue to improve their reading on their own. We achieve this through your child graduating from all 3 sections of Great Leaps (Phonics, High Frequency Word Phrases, and Stories). We've also had students who have caught up to their peers in a matter of months, enabling them to have renewed confidence and a stronger foundation, and no longer need a dedicated intervention. Once this is achieved, we can continue working with them on their reading stamina, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary with nonfiction material to better equip them for the academic demands of middle school and high school.

• If we fail, we'll give a 100% refund. I bet they didn't do that, did they?
• Our program is MOTIVATING. Many competitors are boring, and don't provide enough attention to your child's behavior.
• Our programs build skills such as phonics to support their reading. Many competitors are so focused on skill building, they lose sight of the ultimate goal of reading fluently with comprehension.
• Great Leaps is research and evidence-based! There is also a lot of "fluff" out there that may sound good or look fun, but we have ingrained the research into our intervention and instructional methods.
• The student-tutor relationship is also critical! Building a strong rapport is what helps keep your child engaged and motivated.
• Success breeds success! Many programs begin at your child's frustration level without even knowing it! In Great Leaps your child sees their progress with each session as they progress through exercises.

We always ask that parents remain in the presence of your child during a tutoring session. Additionally, all tutors undergo background checks prior to being hired. On top of this, each tutoring session on our platform is recorded and stored for 6 months to protect both our tutors and your child.

Great Leaps is a great choice for your student if any of these can be said:

• You have a K - 12 student reading below the 5th grade level.
• Your student may be learning disabled or dyslexic.
• Your K - 5 student is on track but wants to get ahead.
• Your student is easily frustrated and unmotivated.
• Your student has difficulty sounding out words.
• Your student reads without any expression (robot reading).
• Your student often skips words and lines while reading.
• Your student makes errors while reading.
• Your student has trouble with comprehension of stories.

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 &Holly B. Lane

• Great Leaps was used with severely learning-disabled middle school students (evaluated separately from Great Leaps) and demonstrated an average growth of 1.8 years per school year

The Effects of a Fluency Intervention Program on the Fluency and Comprehension Outcomes of Middle‐School Students with Severe Reading DeficitsBy Sally A. Spencer, Franklin R. Manis

• 60 middle‐school students with severe reading delays worked with Great Leaps. Results showed that students in the experimental group made more progress on standardized tests of reading fluency than students in the control group.

Precision teaching and methodology of Great Leaps cited as measurably Superior Instructional Technology for Schools Cited by Carl Binder, Kathy Watkins (California)

• Sacajawea Elementary School where students who received 20-30 minutes daily of Precision Teaching advanced an average of 19-40 percentile points compared to their peers. “Improvements of two or more grade-levels per year of instruction are common in Precision Teaching classroom.”

Additional Evidence

• Proprietary analytics at Great Leaps Digital is showing that as of February 25, 2019 the average growth per student is 1.9 years in the first 18 weeks of use with fidelity.
• According to the International Dyslexia Association Quarterly Newsletter, Winter 2002 research, students with Dyslexia make it through the Great Leaps Reading program in 6-24 months, increasing comprehension by 2-3 years with an average “30-40 wpm reading improvement.

To ensure that you have the best experience possible with Great Leaps Tutoring, we recommend using a laptop or desktop with a webcam, microphone and the following browser specifications. Please note that some aspects of Great Leaps may not work if your browser does not meet these minimum requirements:

Desktop

• Chrome 40 or later
• Firefox 35 or later
• Edge 12 or later (requires Windows 10 or later)
• Internet Explorer 11 (requires Windows 7 or later)
• Safari 8 or later (requires OS X Yosemite or later)

Mobile Devices

• Android Browser 5 or later
• Safari (requires iOS 8 or later)
• Chrome 40 or later (requires iOS 8 or Android 4.1 or later)
• Firefox 35 or later (requires Android 2.2 or later)
• Firefox 2.0 or later (requires iOS 8.2 or later)

We guarantee your child will be gaining more than one year per year and catching up in reading after just 2 months of instruction or your money back.

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  This guarantee is only for Great Leaps Reading Tutoring students ages 8 and older working in Great Leaps Phonics, Phrases, and Stories.
• Your child must attend 90% of total sessions within the 2-month scheduled period for our growth guarantee to apply.
• Student growth will be determined by the progression of their instructional reading level data within the Great Leaps program.