Word: graders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manhattan a first-grader greets her visiting grandparents, happily exclaiming, "Come here, sientate!" Her bemused grandfather, who does not speak Spanish, nevertheless knows she is asking him to sit down. A Miami personnel officer understands what a job applicant means when he says, "Quiero un part time." Nor do drivers miss a beat reading a billboard alongside a Los Angeles street advertising CERVEZA -- SIX-PACK...
...messed up," said Trieu Tran, a sixth-grader with a great deal of stage presence. "It's just fun. That's all. We like it and it's tiring. Everything I said better be in the newspaper...
...third semester of tutoring in the HAND program at Longfellow, Rosin is working with a blind student in the sixth grade, taping and reading books. He has also helped a fifth-grader with reading and writing...
Some Harvard tutors have had more difficulty establishing a relationship with their tutees. Michelle K. Jacobs '88 tutored two students through Leverett House HAND but stopped after one seventh-grader regularly missed sessions...
...know they're learning--because they spend the time, you know that they know that learning is important." Rosin said, adding that he has seen improvement in some of his tutees. He recalls being thanked by one fifth-grader whose new report card showed an improvement from a B to B-plus...