1:1 Online reading tutoring

Individualized Reading Instruction for Your District

Great Leaps Tutoring is your answer to bridge the achievement gap with struggling readers! Our trained tutors can meet with tier 2 and some tier 3 students during or after school for 15 minutes a day to implement our research and evidence-based intervention. Schedule a consultation and ask about our 3-month pilot program.

Research and Evidence-Based

Great Leaps was designed to meet students where they are — including those with ADHD, dyslexia, or on the autism spectrum. Its structured, step-by-step lessons, short daily sessions, and immediate feedback help students stay engaged and build real reading fluency. The program’s positive reinforcement and consistent routine empower every child to make measurable progress — often faster than they ever thought possible.

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Turning Frustration into Fluency

Great Leaps gives struggling readers the focused, one-on-one support they need to build phonics, fluency, comprehension, and confidence. In just minutes a day, students make measurable progress using proven methods that turn frustration into success. With personalized instruction and immediate positive feedback, every session moves your child closer to becoming a confident, independent reader.

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Catch Up Fast

If your child is conversationally fluent in English but struggling with reading, we're here to help! Our simple, step-by-step approach coupled with daily practice helps ELL's in reading fluency, comprehension, and expressive language, leading to confidence in the classroom!

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Accelerate Growth for Ages 5 - 7

The Great Leaps Emergent Reader Program helps young students master the building blocks of reading — letters, sounds, and early fluency — through fun, one-on-one lessons that take just minutes a day. By combining proven methods with engaging lessons and positive feedback, young learners gain confidence, accuracy, and a love for reading that lasts a lifetime.

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Learning Challenges

Struggling Readers

English Language Learners

Beginning Readers

Your New Ace in the hole

Combining High Dosage Instruction with the Science of Reading

Our data-driven approach delivers impressive growth in reading skills and student motivation through individualized instruction with our experienced online tutors.

30+

Years in Business

Great Leaps has been a trusted leader in reading fluency since 1995 and continued to evolve it's products and services based on research and student data.

1.2 Yrs

Growth in 3 Months

This is the average instructional grade level reading growth of students who have been in Great Leaps Tutoring for at least 3 months

15 Min

Effective Sessions

Great Leaps maximizes reading growth within a short period of time to help kids get what they need in reading without missing other aspects of their education.

600,000+

Students Impacted

Our reading intervention has reached all 50 states and 40+ countries through public schools, private schools, nonprofits and parents.

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Testimonials

Teachers and Administrators

The Great Leaps Reading Intervention has a long track record of success in both public and private schools!

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“In the 20 years that I have implemented Great Leaps with teachers and paraprofessionals, the data clearly demonstrates the effectiveness of this amazing reading intervention. Students with disabilities, especially students with severe dyslexia, some on the autism spectrum and ELLs, have improved to reading on grade level within a year or two when implemented with fidelity. Struggling students are finally reading with fluency which leads to better comprehension. It also takes into consideration students' limited attention spans. As a School Improvement Specialist, I was able to work with administrators to improve failing schools by using Great Leaps Reading and Math as a school-wide intervention.”

Mary W. - Former Director of Literacy Interventions

New York

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"Great Leaps has made a tremendous impact on my students. Whether the diagnosis is Dyslexia, ADHD, or a Processing Disorder, all of the students have improved. With daily work, one 3rd grade girl moved from an early 1st grade level in reading to a 3rd grade chapter book with good comprehension in 2 months."

Anita B. - Academic Resource Specialist

North Carolina

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“I am in my 28th year of teaching students with learning disabilities in reading in a public school. I am more excited about Great Leaps than when I was introduced to Great Leaps as a graduate student at St. Cloud State University almost 20 years ago. Great Leaps is truly amazing at building reading fluency and is our "Go-To" first intervention when students begin to struggle. The students just love the stories and I do too."

Kelly H. - Learning Disabilities Teacher and Dyslexia Specialist

Minnesota

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Excellent Service, Unbeatable Results

Great Leaps' finely tuned reading intervention can now be implemented in your district, with fidelity guaranteed via our trained and experienced tutors.

Proven Intervention

Great Leaps is a structured reading intervention that is research and evidence-based based with 30 years of strong student data.

Progress Monitoring

Student progress is available at your fingertips to access anytime and overseen by Great Leaps support staff.

Rolling Student Enrollment

Open enrollment allows for new students to be added throughout the school year as needed and implementation continue through the summer.

Impactful Instructors

All Great Leaps tutors are background checked and trained but most importantly, enjoy working with kids. Our author embeds the research into the intervention, but our tutors are great at working through challenging behaviors while building student motivation and confidence.

Flexible Scheduling

At just 15 minutes a day, three to five days per week Great Leaps Tutoring is easy to work in before, during or after school to get students the services they need to succeed.

Data Driven

Students' performance data is automatically recorded with each session, providing a wealth of information to help inform IEP goals and keep parents up to date.

Science of Reading Based Instruction

Our Approach to All Five Pillars

Learn more about each step, including important details, actions, and outcomes

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Phonemic Awareness

Our tutors have access to and training in the Emergent Reader program covering all the steps of phonological awareness, including phonemic and morphemic awareness. Great Leaps was among the first interventions to incorporate this as an essential element for emergent readers.

2

Phonics

Great Leaps Reading utilizes phonics as an integral tool in the teaching and intervention of literacy. One third of the program is devoted to the development of strong phonics through direct instruction with timed exercises, teaching to mastery.

3

Fluency

We have been widely acknowledged as an innovative leader in fluency development. Using the widely research based read/reread method, working from high frequency phrases to age appropriate, leveled stories, step-by-step students are led to independent reading.

4

Vocabulary

Great Leaps not only enhances vocabulary through our Stories section but also works regularly on vocabulary development in the comprehension component at the end of each story. Our students are led to use new words; you don't own a word until you can use that word in conversation.

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Comprehension

Vocabulary and world knowledge, often victims of the knowledge gap, are developed with individualized Depth of Knowledge questions chosen by the tutor. Questions and instruction are designed to help students make text to text, and text to self/real world relationships. Once students acquire sufficient levels of fluency, students work on retelling each story in their own words and draw inferences about characters and actions that extend beyond the story.