Reading and Spelling

GRACEPOINT’s priority is to provide our students with explicitly systematic teaching in phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. Each area plays an equal role in successful reading comprehension.

Reading and spelling are core academic subjects and must be taught explicitly and systematically. To answer the phonological, phonics and fluency piece of reading and spelling, GRACEPOINT uses the Orton Gillingham Approach. Orton Gillingham is a diagnostic, prescriptive and multi-sensory approach to reading and spelling. Our teachers are trained to use this approach when teaching reading and to reinforce the approach throughout the day in all subject areas.  Students receive 60-90 minutes of reading instruction daily. GRACEPOINT's Orton-Gillingham program has been accredited by the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators.