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The materials setup of a RAISE tutor. "The program's materials are extremely helpful in building the kids' understanding and confidence," Russell said.

PRINT: How To Help RAISE The Literacy Rate

Anika Sanka, Co-Editor-in-Chief May 15, 2026

Amelie Russell ('27) didn't expect a flyer to change her summer. But last April, one caught her eye, for a tutoring program pairing high schoolers with elementary kids who needed help learning to read....

Constructing their picture book, Alainah Bhutta ('16) and Nhu-y Nguyen ('16) put the title page into their Spanish picture book about Dumbo the elephant. Students could work by themselves or in pairs on this project, and had to present the book aloud to the class in Spanish. "I liked it, it was a fun way to learn everything in class," said Bhutta.

Spanish Literacy

Isabel Hanewicz, Staff Writer December 16, 2013

With reading initiatives school-wide, Barbara Rice helped incorporate the theme of reading literacy into her classes by having her Spanish 2 students write and illustrate a picture book in Spanish. The...

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