Learning how to learn is one of the greatest gifts a child can receive.

At Sage School, students are presented with the tools and strategies to unlock the code of the English language. Language instruction and Orton-Gillingham remediation form the core of the education of a Sage School student. The instruction is multi-sensory, direct, and explicit.

This educational philosophy teaches the structure of the English language in a multi-sensory, structured, sequential, and organized manner. In this way, the dyslexic student can internalize the rule structure of our language. Students learn a rule-based system for both decoding and applying spelling generalizations.

Letters and sounds are first taught separately through auditory, visual, and kinesthetic linkages. Then they are blended together to form words for reading and spelling. More advanced students learn to identify the prefixes, roots, and suffixes as meaningful units of words. Reading and spelling tasks are carefully designed so the student has success without relying on guessing.

The individual words are then put together to form sentences. Later, students learn to identify the structure of written passages, to write the outline of a passage, and to create a well-constructed report.

Sage School tutors have extensive training and experience in the Orton-Gillingham approach. Our content teachers are trained at the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators resulting in a cohesive team. Therefore, as students move through their daily class schedules, they experience consistency in the manner they are taught.