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The Literacy Enhancement Activity Program supports students between Prep and Grade 6 who are experiencing difficulties with literacy development. Some students require intensive practice with literacy skills and their learning is best supported in small group teaching. The LEAP program has been designed for groups of up to four students to allow explicit instruction and modelling of key skills and specific, immediate feedback.

Each LEAP program has been designed to target specific literacy and language skills that are essential for learning in the classroom. The LEAP programs lead students sequentially through skills, with students required to reach a specific skill level before moving to the next skill.

Regular practice with key skills is essential for students with language and learning difficulties. To provide the best possible learning outcomes, LEAP programs are designed to be delivered intensively over three sessions per week.

Education Support Officers or Literacy Support Teachers act as instructors with the support and supervision of a class teacher.

Program Structure

The four programs within LEAP and the skills targeted are:

Oral Language & Literacy Program (Prep - Grade 2)
Active listening behaviours, following instructions, vocabulary, concept knowledge, sentence structure, asking and answering questions.

Phonological Awareness Program (Grade 1 onwards)
Syllables, rhyme, segmenting, blending, reading and writing with word families.

Narrative Writing Program (Grade 3 onwards)
Story planner, descriptive language, time sequence words, dialogue, editing.

Reading Comprehension Program (Grade 4 onwards)
Main idea, facts and details, sequencing, vocabulary, inferencing.

Program Requirements

The associated course Implementing the LEAP Program provides the training and resources required to begin the program in your school.