MQH provides services for those students who have difficulty in a subject area or who are below grade level. A certified Special Education teacher who has taught children with a wide range of disabilities, staffs the resource program
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The Orton/Gillingham Method is used for teaching Reading and Spelling. We have seen some exciting progress from students who were having difficulty learning to read!

This year we have also implemented a new program for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students who need extra challenge called Junior Great Books.
Please contact Janet Fay, 371-8100 Ext. 29 or j.fay@mqhschool.com for more information.

Junior Great Books

Junior Great Books is the interpretive discussion program that moves students toward excellence in reading comprehension and critical thinking. This is an enrichment program for those 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students who may need to be challenged. Groups of five students at each grade level meet once a week.The focus is on high quality literature and student-centered discussion.

Pay Attention

Pay Attention is a children’s attention process training program. The materials are designed to remediate difficulties with sustained, selective, alternating, and divided auditory and visual attention skills. Students meet individually with a volunteer.

Great Leaps

Great Leaps is a remedial reading program at Mary, Queen of Heaven School that has been utilized for several years. Students work individually with a volunteer for about 10 minutes a day twice a week. They program strengthens student skills in phonics, sight phrases, and reading fluency. At MQH we have seen many students improve their reading skills with this program.

AimsWeb

AimsWeb is a program that assesses and monitors basic reading and math skills. It provides continuous student performance data and reports improvement.

Students in Kindergarten through 2nd grades are assessed three times a year. Students are benchmarked which involves universal screening for all students. Students work individually on early literacy, early numeracy, oral reading, math computation, and math facts.