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High School: 2 Key Questions You Should Be Asking

October 4, 2018 by Halley Lavenstein Leave a Comment

These key questions open the pathway for your child's school success The new school year is underway. Students, teachers, and parents have settled back into the regular routine (for the most part). It's time to check in. Do you know how your child is doing? Do you know how you can best help your child find school success? Ask these 2 simple, key questions to get the answers and results you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Achievements, ACT preparation, anxiety, anxiety, Better grades, Education, Grades, Grades, help with school, high school, high school students, high schoolers, Homework, learning difficulties/differences, organization, Parents, Programs, RITES, RITES Programs, SAT, SAT preparation, School stress, standardized test prep, struggling, study skills, Tutoring, Uncategorized Tagged With: academic skills, academics, achievements, awareness, children, High school study skills, homework, learning, learning differences, learning disabilities, organization, overcome, parents, Rhode Island Tutorial & Educational Services, Rhode Island Tutorial and Educational Services, RITES, RITES program, skills, struggling, students, study skills, stuggling, support, test taking

Executive Function Series, Part 3: Help with Organization

March 19, 2018 by Halley Lavenstein Leave a Comment

In Part 1 of our Executive Function series, we identified what challenges look like for those who struggle with executive function. Part 2 dug deeper into how to help a child with executive function issues achieve goals. With Part 3, we offer tips to help with organization at home. The first step to helping people who are overwhelmed with the task of organizing is assessing which executive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Achievements, ADHD, anxiety, anxiety, Education, Executive function, Executive functioning, Executive functions, Grades, Help, Homework, learning difficulties/differences, organization, organizational challenges, Programs, RITES, RITES Programs, School stress, struggling, study skills, Tutoring Tagged With: academic skills, academics, achievements, awareness, children, executive function, executive function deficit, executive functioning, executive functions, High school study skills, homework, learning, learning differences, learning disabilities, organization, overcome, parents, Rhode Island Tutorial & Educational Services, Rhode Island Tutorial and Educational Services, RITES, RITES program, skills, struggling, students, study skills, stuggling, Summer learning, Summer Programs, tutoring

Steps to Get SAT or ACT Accommodations

October 2, 2017 by Halley Lavenstein Leave a Comment

How to apply for accommodations for SAT or ACT If you have already had accommodations for tests in school, such as extended time or large-print text, you probably already know there is a specific process to get this type of accommodation for the SAT and ACT tests. If you are new to requesting accommodations, there are many pieces you need to know.  Either way, it takes time to get approval for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Achievements, ACT accommodations, ACT preparation, Education, exams, Executive function, high school, high school students, high schoolers, learning difficulties/differences, private SAT tutoring, Programs, RITES, RITES Programs, SAT accommodations, SAT preparation, standardized test prep, Standardized tests, study skills, Test-taking, Tutoring, Uncategorized Tagged With: academic skills, academics, achievements, ACT, ACT accommodations, ACT prep, executive function, High school study skills, learning, learning differences, learning disabilities, math tutoring, overcome, PSAT, PSAT accommodations, PSAT prep, reading comprehension, Rhode Island Tutorial & Educational Services, Rhode Island Tutorial and Educational Services, RITES, RITES program, SAT, SAT accommodations, SAT prep, test taking, top-rated, tutoring

Noah Text: Exciting New Typeface for Struggling Readers

November 22, 2016 by Halley Lavenstein

Noah Text Books

Working with students who struggle to read can be eye-opening. What do they see when they look at words on a page? How do their brains process these symbols? The answer can vary from student to student, and the pathways to reading success can be as unique as each student.For those with dyslexia, research has shown that a systematic, highly-structured, sequential approach to reading is the most … [Read more...]

Filed Under: books for boys, books for girls, dyslexia, Education, learning difficulties/differences, Reading, Reading skills, reluctant readers, RITES, struggling readers, Uncategorized Tagged With: academic skills, academics, author, books, children, dyslexia, learning, learning differences, learning disabilities, overcome, read, reading, reading comprehension, reading skills, Rhode Island Tutorial & Educational Services, RITES, skills, struggling readers

What You Need to Know Now About Summer Brain Drain

April 28, 2016 by Halley Lavenstein

Summer brain drain is the loss of academic skills over a period of time that a student is away from school, most usually summer vacation.  Brain drain is also referred to as summer slide, learning loss or regression.  The research shows that the average student loses 2 1/2 months of math computational skills previously learned, regardless of family income and educational levels. It can take … [Read more...]

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