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Mission

The mission of the Augustine Project is to improve the reading ability and thereby enhance the academic achievement of low-income children and teens who struggle with literacy skills. The project trains and supports volunteer tutors who provide free, one-on-one, long-term, Orton-Gillingham instruction in reading, writing and spelling. The project also offers teacher training opportunities for professional educators.

Orton-Gillingham is a multisensory, structured, phonics-based approach that has been proven to work with those who have language related learning difficulties. Lessons use Wilson materials and include the five essential components of research-based reading instruction as defined by the National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness; systematic, explicit phonics; vocabulary; fluency and comprehension.



Debbie McCarthy, project director, with a practicum student.

This page was updated November 2, 2007
Augustine News!

  • The next tutor training courses will be July 7-18, 2008 at Holy Family Episcopal Church (200 Hayes Rd, Chapel Hill, NC) and October 13-24, 2008 at Watts St. Baptist Church (800 Watts St., Durham, NC). Contact the project's director at 919-408-0798 or augustine@chfnc.net if you are interested in being trained.
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  • The Augustine Project's replication policy is now available; click here to learn more.

  • Tutors, click here for lesson planning ideas and activities.


    • The Augustine Project is an outreach
    ministry of
    Holy Family Episcopal Church
    in Chapel Hill,
    North Carolina.