Our Lady's Christian School

Reading

LOGIC Reading Method

OLC teaches the LOGIC (Literacy through Orton-Gillingham for Improved Competency) reading method in Kindergarten through third grades. Introduced during the 2008-09 school year, LOGIC takes a multisensory approach—meaning students learn through sight, hearing, movement and touch.

Students begin in kindergarten with learning the sounds that letters make. In first grade students learn the rules for different sounds. (For example, plural words can have an s sound at the end, like bats, or a z sound, like balls.) Students review each rule 12 times through different learning activities that employ all the senses—the pathways through which we learn.

With its emphasis on individual learning and time-intensive approach, most schools use the LOGIC method in tutoring and small group settings. Using it with multiple grade levels is an ambitious undertaking—but well worth the effort as it encompasses English, base words, comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and phonics.

For more about LOGIC, including teachers’ quotes, click here.

Leveled Reading

Leveled reading improves students’ reading comprehension and fluency in all subject areas by matching children with books that are appropriate for their individual reading level. Learn more

OLC students in first through sixth grades use leveled books (the same book written on different levels of reading ability) in all subject areas. For pleasure reading, students can browse from leveled book selections in the school library and in their classrooms.

OLC’s leveled reading program began in 2003 with a goal of raising students’ overall reading achievement levels. Specifically, teachers expect to increase reading scores on standardized tests by at least 15 months by October 2006. Achieving that goal would mean pushing the average class score up by more than a grade level. (Average scores were already well above grade level.)

Reviewers from the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools evaluated OLC’s leveled reading program during the school’s 2006 accreditation process and gave it high marks.