I met with Yunseo Friday afternoon after she got out of school. We talked about each other’s days for a while and then got started by talking about her newest book, another Magic Treehouse Book (surprise, surprise). This one was about an Ice Wizard. I asked her what had happened so far in the book, and then we read a couple more pages of it. I asked her to write a few sentences on what she thought would happen next. She had some pretty good guesses. Next I timed her for two minutes and she improved from the last time, getting 17 words this time. She definitely understood more this time that she needed to write quickly and not worry about her handwriting, but she is very particular about it and at the end insisted on erasing and rewriting all the messy words and letters. To finish, I used a worksheet I had made up that was a clip from Clifford the Big Red Dog, her favorite tv show. I had all of the dialogue written out with a few words missing from every sentence for her to listen and write in. We ran out of time and only finished about a third of it, but she loved it and wanted to stay late to finish more. Her mom had to make her leave with a promise of finishing it at our next tutoring session next week. I’m very excited to have found something she really enjoys that also is helping her learn!
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