Zeyad Aljumaili, 10, read the text of "How Glooskap Found Summer" with a smile on his face, correcting himself and occasionally glancing up at his teacher when he pronounced a hard word correctly.
"All around him, the
forest, no, frosty land was barren of everyone," read the fourth-grader
during an English as Second Language class at Pine Valley Elementary
School a few weeks ago.
Zeyad's
native tongue is Arabic, but he has picked up English quickly since his
family came to Wilmington last year after immigrating to the United
States from Iraq.
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