Child tutee
Date/Time: 1/13/16 @
4:30-5:30
Location: Books-a-million
Topic/Skill: Comprehension in texts
Feedback provided to tutee: My tutee and I picked out a couple of books to read. He’s in kindergarten, so I made sure he didn’t pick any that would be too difficult or boring. He could read pretty well, but he didn’t want to read the whole book. I read some of it with him so he would be more willing to read his part, and also for time’s sake. The main focus I wanted for this session was also to improve his vocabulary skills, not to read. I picked out a few simple words in the texts that he was unfamiliar with and told him what it meant, gave an example of the word in a sentence, and demonstrated how to use other words around it to figure out what it means. I wasn’t expecting him to master this skill, but I wanted to introduce it to him. I would coach him along and point out context clues to him, and he did a pretty good job of at least getting the general idea of what a word meant.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I learned that although a child may be considered an ELL, their English skills could be very good. I tutored a different ELL last summer who was a little older, and his reading skills were way below this tutee. I would have never guessed this tutee was an ELL by his reading skills, as they were very good, especially for a kindergartener.
Location: Books-a-million
Topic/Skill: Comprehension in texts
Feedback provided to tutee: My tutee and I picked out a couple of books to read. He’s in kindergarten, so I made sure he didn’t pick any that would be too difficult or boring. He could read pretty well, but he didn’t want to read the whole book. I read some of it with him so he would be more willing to read his part, and also for time’s sake. The main focus I wanted for this session was also to improve his vocabulary skills, not to read. I picked out a few simple words in the texts that he was unfamiliar with and told him what it meant, gave an example of the word in a sentence, and demonstrated how to use other words around it to figure out what it means. I wasn’t expecting him to master this skill, but I wanted to introduce it to him. I would coach him along and point out context clues to him, and he did a pretty good job of at least getting the general idea of what a word meant.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I learned that although a child may be considered an ELL, their English skills could be very good. I tutored a different ELL last summer who was a little older, and his reading skills were way below this tutee. I would have never guessed this tutee was an ELL by his reading skills, as they were very good, especially for a kindergartener.
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