Join us this summer for our teacher workshop series.
How to Help Your Students Become Fluent, Confident Readers
Date: Thursday, July 12th 2:00-3:30 (National Summer Learning Day)
Location: RITES Learning Center 334 East Avenue Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Presenter: Sarah K. Blodgett is the author of the very imaginative book series The Mystical Years of Franklin Noah Peterson and Zack Early Readers. She is also the creator and founder of Noah Text™, a specialized text designed to assist and teach new and struggling readers, those with dyslexia, and ESL students, how to read with fluency and ease. Thus, her current book series is available in plain text and in Noah Text™. Sarah is a skilled researcher and writer that developed Noah Text™ after working with her own child that struggled with reading. Her journey started in 2003. In 2012, she started formally researching and honing her technique, which led to her research article: The Literacy Crisis: What we can learn from languages throughout the world to solve this problem. Her work has been featured in The Day Newspaper, The Associated Press, Education Talk Radio, CBS 94.9 Radio News Now, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, DifferentBrains.org, Material Psychology, and City Focus Channel 25.
Description: Did you know it takes our students 2-3 times longer to learn to read compared to most other countries because of the complexity of our writing system. In fact, 50% of our language is of foreign origin making it one of the most unpredictable in the world. Yet Finland, the country that consistently outranks us in education, has one of the easiest writing systems. As well, their rate of dyslexia is much lower. This workshop will introduce you to Noah Text™ and teach you how to bring predictability to our irregular writing system by introducing your students to critical word patterns. It will show you how to bring meaningful instruction to children by giving them the key to unlock further words, thus, giving them independence to become confident, fluent readers.
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Lexia PowerUp Literacy
Date: Monday, July 16th 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Location: RITES Learning Center in Pawtucket: 334 East Avenue, Pawtucket, RI
Presenter: Lisa Bigney M.A., M.Ed. is the founder and co-director of RI Tutorial & Educational Services (RITES) and the organizer of Rhode Island’s National Summer Learning Day. She has degrees in elementary and special education, as well as computer instruction, and is a certified Orton-Gillingham practitioner. She has been working with parents, teachers, and students for over thirty years to ensure the delivery of quality educational instruction.
Description: Lexia PowerUp Literacy software is designed to help students in grades 6-12 become proficient readers and confident learns. PowerUp Literacy helps teachers simultaneously address gaps in fundamental literacy skills while helping students build the higher-order skills they need to comprehend, analyze, evaluate and compare increasingly complex literary and informational texts.” Participants will get an overview of what the program offers and learn how to implement the program with their students.
If you are unable to make a donation at this time but would like to attend one of the workshops, then please Contact Lisa Bigney by filling out the form on our Contact Page: Click HereTeaching Your Children with ADHD: Adding Tools to Your Toolbox (for teachers of pre-K through 3rd) 
Date: Monday August 13, 9:00-11: 00 a.m.
Location: RITES Learning Center in Pawtucket: 334 East Avenue, Pawtucket, RI
Presenter: Betsy Alper, LISCW is a clinical social worker with more than 25 years of experience working with children, families, and adults. Through her professional work and personal experiences, she has discovered that one size does not fit all when it comes to helping families affected by ADD/ADHD. Success occurs when families and individual work with tools that fit their unique needs. From this realization, her company A.D.D. Strategies and Solutions were born. www.addstrategiesandsolutions.com. Betsy is also a RITES board member and a key supporter in helping it accomplish its goals of supporting the community.
Description: This workshop provides educators with an understanding of the vast diversity of symptoms associated with ADHD and often co-existing conditions. Participants will gain skills and strategies help students to experience success with challenges associated with ADHD including time management, organization, difficulty with transitions as well hyperactivity and impulsivity.
Rhode Island Tutorial & Educational Services
334 East Avenue – Suite 3 Pawtucket, RI 02860
Speak with a RITES Specialist 401-723-4459