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Article: Girl turns struggle with words into a trip to Galapagos Islands; Ella Beaudoin has dyslexia, but that didn't stop her from writing an essay that won her a spot on a National Geographic expedition.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 7, 2006
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Byline: Emily Kaiser; Staff Writer
Ella Beaudoin is very bright, but she was fading in her third-grade class. "It was hard when she was struggling at school because she burns with such a bright light and you could see that light dimming," said her mother, Linda Unsworth. "It was heartbreaking to see that."
Dyslexia was disrupting Ella's ability to read and write, dividing her from the rest of the class. Some kids called her stupid.
Now in sixth grade, the 11-year-old Minneapolis girl is a winner in a national essay contest that will send her to the Galapagos Islands on the first National Geographic Kids Expedition Team.
She will be one ...