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The Report Card

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TARDY
A 'tardy' mark meant you arrived after the bell, the word comes from the Latin tardus, meaning slow, and it stuck around in American schoolhouse language long after it faded from everyday speech.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CONDUCT
Many report cards carried a separate grade just for conduct, how you behaved, how you treated your classmates, whether you talked out of turn. It could raise a parent's eyebrow faster than any subject grade.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
STARS
Gold foil stars were a teacher's secret weapon, small, adhesive, and enormously motivating. A paper covered in them was worth showing off at the kitchen table.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SPELLING
The weekly spelling test was a Friday ritual in classrooms across America for much of the 20th century, twenty words, a sharp pencil, and the hope that you had studied the night before.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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The Report Card, a free, large-print word search evoking letter grades, gold stars, spelling tests, and that folded note tucked into a backpack.

About The Report Card

Twice a year, or maybe four times if your school did quarterly reports, a folded card came home with your name at the top and a column of letters down the side. An A felt like sunshine; a C felt like a quiet conversation was coming at dinner. Teachers wrote their comments in careful cursive, "shows improvement," "a pleasure to have in class", and a parent's signature in blue ballpoint sealed the whole exchange before it went back to school.

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