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Our 2010 Crusade Adventure & Academic Program, which started in mid-July, is winding up this week! Over 100 middle school Crusaders participated in summer CAAP this year. Each group of students met at Roger Williams Middle School in Providence for 10 jam-packed days of team building, life skills, conflict resolution exercises, and leadership activities. They [...]

Michele Cinquegrano of Verizon Foundation visited a classroom of Ways to A’s students today and presented us with a check for $5,000! The grant goes to support our Adventures in Literacy program during the school year.
Before posing with College Crusade CEO Todd Flaherty for a photo, Ms. Cinquegrano spoke with the sixth graders. “The Verizon [...]

Ways to A’s has started! Our summer study-skills program for students who are joining The College Crusade this fall is packed with up-and-coming 6th graders from Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, and Woonsocket. Their coursework includes exercises in active listening, note taking, reading, and writing, memory improvement, test taking, learning styles, and time and classroom management.
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Hundreds of new sixth-grade Crusaders are learning how to take notes, study for tests, manage their homework time, and handle many other challenges of middle school that they will face in the fall. It’s all part of our annual Ways to A’s study-skills course, which got underway at the Community College of Rhode Island this [...]

Cruaders, it’s time to choose your books for summer reading and book reports! Here are some suggested books if you are entering 8th grade in the fall. Remember these are only a suggestion. You may read any book you would like as long as it is a chapter book, age appropriate, and one that you [...]

Crusaders, ready to get started on your summer reading and book reports? Here are some suggested books if you are entering 7th grade in the fall. Remember these are only a suggestion. You may read any book you would like as long as it is a chapter book, age appropriate, and one that you [...]

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 [...]