by TeamReadAdmin | Jun 1, 2015 | Tutor Stories
The word is climbs. Kaimana stares at it. He frowns. He won’t speak. He fidgets in his chair. It makes no sense: Why is there a “b” at the end of this word? Kaimana’s tutor, a Garfield High School student named Sakura, now in her second year with Team Read,...
by TeamReadAdmin | Jun 1, 2015 | Success Stories
After two weeks with her Team Read student Antonio, Hailey was struggling. Antonio avoided speaking in English. He wouldn’t read. And he never, ever smiled. “Antonio, we have to read a book,” she’d often say. The second grader frowned and spoke softly. “I’m sorry, I...