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Ready, Set, Leap!®
Early Childhood Education

Ready, Set, Leap!® was found to have no discernible effects on oral language, print knowledge, phonological processing, early reading/writing skills, and math.

Ready, Set, Leap!® is a comprehensive preschool curriculum that focuses on early reading skills, such as phonemic awareness, letter knowledge, and letter-sound correspondence using multi-sensory technology that incorporates touch, sight, and sound. Teachers may adopt either a theme-based or a literature-based teaching approach. For each approach, the curriculum provides lesson plans, learning objectives, and assessment tools.

Findings

2
studies that met standards out of
3
eligible studies reviewed
Outcome
domain
Effectiveness Rating Grades Evidence Tier
Early reading/writing No discernible effects PK
General Mathematics Achievement Potentially negative effects PK
Oral language No discernible effects PK
Phonological processing Potentially positive effects PK
Print knowledge No discernible effects PK

Last Updated: October 2008

Race

Black
62%
White
15%

Ethnicity

Hispanic
28%
Not Hispanic or Latino
72%

Gender

Male: 50%
Female: 50%

Delivery Method

whole class icon
Whole Class

Urbanicity

Urban

Locations

NJ
Northeast
Note: This summary only includes data from studies that reported sample information. The Intervention Report may include evidence from other studies that met standards, but did not report sample information.


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This intervention report was prepared for the WWC by Mathematica under contract ED-07-CO-0062.

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