Word: grader
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Accentuate the positive, advises Jennifer Richard Jacobson, author of How Is My First Grader Doing in School? "Say, 'Look at all you learned!'" Even if the grades are poor, parents can ask, "What do you think you've done well? What are you proud of?" says Jacobson. Then ask, "What are you finding hard? Where are you having trouble...
...Carried by its long fold-out handle, the iBook could be a sleek, flat fourth-grader's lunch-box. It is a laptop with a sense of humor--almost ridiculous in its rejection of more serious stereotypes of computer. Designed to live in someone's backpack, it can be handled with relative impunity. Colored like a pre-school toy, it can be considered with a modicum of flippancy and easy camaraderie...
After he bids the teacher farewell, he calls over to sixth-grader Genevah G. J. Alphonse Dalina, who is watching a low-key pick-up basketball game...
...There's a new kid hanging out in front of school today: Max, a chubby ninth grader, has not been punk long--he's only stapled spikes to half of his denim jacket. Randy turns...
Everyone in the gym at Martinez snickers at the names that Pritchard and his lunkhead pals used to call a heavy girl named Gina when he was a third-grader in St. Louis. But they mummy up when he says, "Nobody wanted to be there...when she was home, with all her pain locked up." Pritchard tells how, years later, he ended up in an emergency room after a gang member conked him on the head. And guess who was his nurse? Gina, who took note of the fact that while she had slimmed down nicely, Pritchard was the size...