I met with Gabriela for
the last time on June 20th at 7:00 pm at Strozier. During this session,
she told me she had watched Inside Out for one of her classes and she really
enjoyed the movie. She told me she had to answer some questions for class about
the movie. Since I had not watched the movie before I figured it would be a
great time to ask her to summarize the movie and tell me about the characters
so that she could practice speaking. I would ask her questions about the movie
and she would explain it to me. I thought she did a great job at summarizing
and explaining because I was able to understand the entire plot of the movie
and what it was about.
Monday, July 10, 2017
Vanessa TS# 15
I met with Gabriela on
June 17th at 11:00 am at Strozier Library. During this meeting, she
had a list of word whose meaning changed when you stressed a different part of
the word. I had her read through the list and ask her what each word meant.
After she went over the list I read them to her to see if she would hear the
difference. I made sentences using some of the words and I would ask her to
read them and use the right syllable stress.
Vanessa TS# 14
I met with Gabriela on
June 15th at 7:00 pm at the Starbucks on Copeland. We practiced
minimal pairs a little more just to reinforce what we had already practice and
to make sure she really could tell a difference. She had another vocabulary
list and she asked if she could read the words to me to make sure that she was
pronouncing them correctly. I told her about how in English there is something
called a homonym, so some words sound the same but they are written differently
and have different meanings. She found this to be very interesting and wanted
to find more homonyms, so we spent the rest of the time looking at homonyms and
I would explain the meaning of some words she didn’t recognize.
Vanessa TS# 13
June 21st, 2017
at 10:00 am was my last tutoring session with the kids. During this session, we
worked on animals. We would show them pictures of animals and ask them if they
knew what animals they were and we would ask them where they lived. They knew a
lot of the more common animals but they obviously had a harder time identifying
animals that more native to America. Then we decided to work a little more on
their phonetic alphabet and identifying the sounds letters make.
Vanessa TS# 12
I went to tutor the kids
again on June 17th, 2017 10:00 am. During this session, I worked
with the younger kids on their colors and shapes. I wrote down colors and had
them attempt to read them and if they were not able to them I would point to
things and asked them what color that it was. As for the shapes, I drew some shapes
and asked them what they were, if they did not know them I would tell them what
it was and then point to something in the apartment that was the same shape. I
also realized that the older kids would take notes and write down everything I
would write.
Vanessa TS# 11
We went to tutor the kids
again on June 14th, 2017 7:00 pm. I used this session to make sure
that Alex had actually learned what I worked on with him during the last
session and to reinforce the lesson. I started by asking him to count by 100
all the way to 2,000 and he was able to do it with ease. Then I wrote down
random numbers and had him read them. He sometimes had trouble reading when it
was in the 10-thousands, but he still did really well and the lesson stuck with
him.
Vanessa TS# 10
During the June 10th,
2017 10:00 am tutoring session I ended up working with Alex. I asked him what
he wanted to work on, if he wanted to read or work on vocabulary and he told me
he didn’t want to. So, I asked him if he wanted to work on numbers and math and
he got really excited. I stared by writing the numbers from 1-100 and having
him read them, which he knew very well. I them wrote from 100-1,000 by 100 and
he had a little bit of a harder time but he understood quickly. Then I started
to teach him about tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousand places and how they
are divided by commas. He seemed a little confused at first but by the end he
was able to understand perfectly, even harder numbers to read such as 15,256.
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