Saturday, November 23, 2013

Don_M_TP-#10_Child



Although the Korean tutee selected a book to read, I, instead, started our session with a review of the last session.  Tutee is still unable to form sentences with the new words even after I have given many examples.  For some of the words learned in the last session, he needed to read the original text to be able to recall most of the words. 

As he was feeling cocky, I had him read and answer the four questions about drawing conclusions which had some tricky questions.  He did very well missing only one question.  The key word was Cat not Cats.  After reading the text, he quickly identified the correct answer.  Impressed with his comprehension, I made him a deal.  If he would work through one vocabulary sheet and one reading work sheet, then I would let him read his Star Wars book.  He learned the new words ubiquitous, rash, bashing, esteemed, and controversial.

The Star Wars book that he selected was in dialogue format with pictures of the characters.  To prevent him from reading in a monotone voice, I requested that he read the dialogue in the voice of the char actor.  I demonstrated with my best Yoda voice, and then went high for the girl's voice.  That last wasn't pretty.  But, it gave the tutee a laugh, and he enthusiastically started his read.   He added the words disruptive and unnecessary from this text to his vocabulary.

I wrote all vocabulary words from this session and the last session on the back of a worksheet, and then I quizzed him on them.  When he couldn't give me a sentence example, I made several for him.  I should have written these sample sentences down.  My bad.

I reviewed this lesson with his mother, and I requested that she quiz him on the vocabulary words before our next sesson.

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