How to Include Reading in Your Child’s Summer Help your child maintain essential reading skills during the coming months. Avoid “summer slide” by keeping your child engaged in fun reading activities all summer long. Try these easy ways to enjoy summer reading together… Read All About It: If you’re planning a summer vacation, read a book about the destination with your child. Critic’s … [Read more...]
Writing Your Own Summer Success Story
Keep Your Brain Engaged While You Have Fun with Summer Writing Everyday writing activities are a great way to avoid summer brain drain and boost higher-level thinking skills. These activities bring together a variety of academic skills that need to be practiced to avoid losing them: Emailing a pen pal Maintaining a reading log Making up new summer recipes Recording the results of … [Read more...]
RITES Moses Brown and Rocky Hill Week 3 Snapshot
Moses Brown and Rocky Hill Summer Programs Rocky Hill Authors Workshop: Melinda Siomiak and Diana Carlson have taught RITES' young authors and illustrators to hone their craft while working through the steps of the writing process to “publish” their own book. The workshop ended with an Authors' Reading (Publishing Party), during which each student read his or her newly completed work to … [Read more...]