Give to St. Chris School

14611 S. Keeler Ave.
Midlothian, IL 60445
(directions)

Phone: 708.385.8776
Fax: 708.385.8102
Email: info@stchrisschool.org

Rev. Mark Walter, Pastor
Mr. Mike Johnson, Principal

Our school is proud to have our primary grade students be a part of the Rowland Reading Super School Initiative since Fall, 2010. The goal of the Rowland Reading Program is to create schools that are nationally recognized for excellence in primary-grade reading instruction. Our school features a reading program called Superkids in the preschool through second-grade classrooms. Superkids is a comprehensive, phonics-based reading and language arts program that has produced exceptional results in schools around the country. Our teachers have undergone extensive training with reading experts in order to guarantee the academic achievement of our students.

Our school's implementation of this cutting-edge reading program was recently the subject of an article in the SouthtownStar newspaper.

Our principal, Mr. Johnson, is particularly enthused about the program, saying "St. Christopher School is excited to be chosen as a representative school for the Rowland Reading Initiative. The teachers and staff are confident that the Superkids program will be beneficial in increasing the reading skills and proficiencies for all of our students."

The Superkids reading program is based on 5 key principals:

1. Superkids provides the right reading instruction at the right time.
More and more administrators are learning that primary-grade teachers provide the strongest reading instruction when the teachers choose the programs that best meet the needs of their own students. No program in the market today teaches children to read more effectively than Superkids does. With Superkids, children are fluent, automatic readers by the time they leave second grade.

2. Reading research has overwhelmingly validated the importance of Superkids’ systematic, phonics-based instruction for primary grades.
Phonics should not be taught as a stand-alone subject area or added on to another program. Mixing different types of instruction confuses children, slows their decoding fluency, and diminishes their comprehension.

3.Superkids Reading Program is a comprehensive reading & language arts curriculum with phonics at its core.
As Superkids builds strong phonics and decoding skills, it simultaneously integrates instruction in comprehension, vocabulary, and fluency. The program also develops students’ skills in writing, spelling, grammar, usage and mechanics. As a result, Superkids produces students who can read and spell accurately and fluently, readers who can comprehend an author’s ideas and writers who can express their own ideas with confidence and precision.

4. Superkids is an efficient, cost-effective reading program.
Because reading, writing, spelling, grammar, and handwriting are seamlessly integrated, teachers have everything they need with no extra materials or planning required. Put simply: what is bought is taught.

5. Superkids is easy to teach and understand.
Superkids has a clear instructional path that allows teachers to communicate key concepts and reinforce key skills throughout each grade level. Careful, explicit instruction builds on previous lessons in a spiraling sequence, reviewing and reinforcing known skills as new skills are introduced. This clear instructional path also enables children to see how they are learning while they are learning.

For additional information about the Superkids reading program and the Rowland Reading Initiative, please visit the Rowland Reading Foundation web site.