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What do you get when you put a lot of kids and a lot of books together in one place? A lot of reading, of course!
On October 3 we kicked off our new Adventures in Literacy program for sixth-grade Crusaders, which is held here at the Crusade office on Saturdays through May 2010. We use [...]

Our Crusade Adventure & Academic Program for middle school is winding up this week. What a terrific time CAAP Crusaders had this summer! Their home base was Roger Williams Middle School in Providence, where they started off each day with reading and discussion of Monster, an award-winning novel by Walter Dean Myers. After lunch they [...]

Today starts the last week of Ways to A’s, our summer study-skills course for sixth graders who are joining The College Crusade this fall. This afternoon students were learning about note taking and playing memorization games. (Quick, what’s the size of Alaska in square miles?) They also read a chapter aloud together from Freak the [...]

Did you know that dozens of sixth-grade Crusaders come to The College Crusade office every Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. to read? They use the fun computer-based program ReadAbout to explore all sorts of interesting topics in science and social studies – from rocks and minerals to hurricanes, robots, magnets, and mammals. We [...]

Did you know that over fifty 6th-grade Crusaders come to the College Crusade office every Saturday to read together? They are part of our Adventures in Literacy program, which is based on a curriculum called ReadAbout. They read about all sorts of interesting topics, write down their thoughts and comments, and then talk about their [...]