By Saskia Nilsen RITES learning specialist and education advocate I homeschooled my son last year due to medical reasons. Here is what I learned about how to schedule the day. I hope some of these ideas will help you structure your day during this difficult time when all our children are at home. Starting the Day Give a 15-minute warning and a five-minute warning to start time and try to … [Read more...]
Making School at Home FUN with Hands-on Activities!
By Saskia Nilsen RITES learning specialist and education advocate Try something fun each day. You've got this! Keep your child learning and achieving goals, while also social distancing and working from home yourself. Below are ideas to support parents at home to help your children get started with digital learning, as well as other ideas for activities and hands-on learning. Hands-On … [Read more...]
Help Your Child Improve Reading Comprehension Skills
Reading Comprehension: Making Meaning from Words by Debra Nassau RITES learning specialist Reading comprehension is understanding what we read. This skill is essential if we want to gain information from the words on the written page. For many students, making meaning from the words they read is a real challenge. They can pronounce the words and put them together with the other words in a … [Read more...]
Reading difficulties: Are you seeing these signs in your student?
Learning to read and understanding what is being read are common problems for many students. It is common for struggling readers to also have difficulties with writing and spelling in addition to reading difficulties. Poor reading skills can be the cause of low grades, anxiety, and frustration. Receive RITES Tutors' Top Reading Tips Subscribe Are you seeing these signs in your … [Read more...]
RICAS: Beat the Odds
By now most of us have read the results of the Rhode Island Comprehensive Assessment System (RICAS) test with schools’ proficiency scores ranging from single digits to 40thpercentiles. True, there are some outliers in suburban schools with scores in the 70thpercentiles. But, for most kids in urban schools, the low scores reflect the daily struggles students face each day in classrooms. They just d … [Read more...]