Emily_TP (Child)_5

When I arrived at Jun’s house, he was pretty excited to see me. He showed me his chapter book that he needed to read for an AR test the next day. He told me that he had already read 26 pages out of about 100, but he wanted to start from the beginning to refresh his memory. He informed me that it was a weird book, and I would have to agree a little bit. I don’t think he knew that he was not making a good selection in choosing this book, but we talked about that while reading.  The book was kind of rude and used words that weren’t really words, like “vomitorium” (a combination of the words ‘vomit’ and ‘auditorium’) to describe the place that the kids ate lunch. I had to explain that as well of other things that I did not really want to explain to Jun. Another example would be that the narrator called the one of his peers ‘the nude kid’ instead of ‘new kid.’ Jun knew that ‘nude’ meant ‘naked’ and was confused. They also used ‘shut up’ in the book, but Jun knew that it was not a nice thing to say, so we didn’t read that part. I think it was all meant to be funny, and some parts were funny, but Jun mostly thought it was weird. I stopped to ask him comprehension questions periodically. He understood most of it, but his focus seemed to be broken at some parts. The book dragged on, so we took turns reading. We had read about 60 pages when our session ended. I think this helped. I had to tell Jun to show down while reading and pause at punctuation, so when we started taking turns reading, I hoped that this would serve as modeling for him. He began to do better when it was his turn, so I guess it was working. I also think that this helped him focus because he began doing better on comprehension checks. I only have one more session with Jun. He and his mom are so nice and make me feel appreciated.