I met with Jason on Monday to work on his English Homework. It was an FCAT practice that took nearly a full hour to really parse out and get Jason to understand. For some reason, he was having trouble identifying the point of the article. The article was about how technology has helped people to with vision problems to see better, and each paragraph was about a different technology and time. He seemed unable to take so much conflicting information and find the common theme running through each of them.
So I told him to take out a sheet of paper and write down a summary of each paragraph as we read each one together. This really helped him out, because after he had put all of it in his own words, he was much more easily able to identify the actual topic of the paper, instead of being distracted by the details.
We spent the rest of the session answering the questions for the assignment.
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