Alexa TS #12

Today (6/24/17, 6:00-7:00) I met with Sultan, and we went through some reading passages as well as went over some vocabulary. It took him a little longer to read one of the passages today because I picked some higher level stuff to work on. However, he still did a great job going through it, answering the questions, and summarizing the story. We actually focused on vocabulary for a lot of the time, and we ended up going through 30 vocabulary words. He was actually really grateful that I printed out the vocabulary words for him to keep, and when he brought them back to this tutoring session, he had written the definition in Arabic next to the 30 words. We went through each word, and a lot of them he was able to understand well because he had translated them to his first language. However, there were a few that I guess were translated wrong, but I tried my best to explain those to him. There was one instance where I couldn't understand what he was saying, so he actually used my own strategy and showed me a visual of what he was talking about. When he showed me the visual, I was able to make the connections back to what he was saying. He was saying the word differently than how it would normally be said in English, so that's why that confusion was there.