Damil_TP_#5

Child TP- 3
1/29/2015
6:30 pm
CIES Classroom
Topics:
-Reading Comprehension
-Vocabulary

This evening I meet up with with PJ Chang and his family after class for his tutoring session. His mother had handed me in days prior his reading comprehension homework and a grade level appropriate book that he himself had chosen to complete with him during the session. During my preparation for PJ's tutoring session, I went ahead and read both assignments and completed them myself. While I was doing so, I thought of ways to make it easier for him to understand new vocabulary words and expressions.

One of the methods I thought of was to use my iPad to illustrate the material he read and define new word vocabulary words. After he read the essay for his reading comprehension homework, which was about a little boy's unfortunate experience at the beach, I downloaded a picture of a beach and used it to briefly review the events in the story. Once we started on the question and answer section, I asked PJ to draw upon his own experience to the beach and the picture to answer the questions. He answer and understood most questions on his own very well, which was a great improvement over our last session. For each question he answered, I would ask him why thought it was the right answer was right and the wrong answers were wrong. I did this to help him to build confidence in his abilities and rationalize/ use context information to figure out what he didn't know. This seemed to work very well for PJ, he was very interested in reading more.

For his book reading, I made extensive use of the included illustrations and my own drawings to help him understand the technical terms used in Motor Cross Racing. At times he he wanted to talk extensively about imaginary ways the sport could be made safer and how racers race. I felt that as long as he was correctly using the new vocabulary words he had learned from the book, it was good sign of progress and thus OK as long as we finished the book in time. I feel that PJ learned a lot today and he did very well. For my next session with PJ, I will continue finding new ways to create interest in the materials we study together.