I had my first tutoring session with my child tutee on Friday. She is 5 year-old girl from South Korea. Before the session I bought some materials including books, coloring books, crayons, stickers, and a dry erase board. I met up with Youngseo and her family at the Northeast Branch Library and we had a study room which worked well because I think it kept Youngseo from getting distracted.
She was more outgoing than I expected her to be and also better at reading than I had expected. I noticed that when she was reading out loud she would sometime skip over words so I need to help her read every single word. She also had some trouble with the ‘th’ sound, which I tried to help her with. She really liked the stickers and the coloring pages so I used those as a reward for when she had completed a passage of reading. Sometimes we switched off on reading so that she could hear me pronounce the words correctly.
Her parents were very nice and I meant to talk to them more after the tutoring session. I would be good for Youngseo to practice the ‘th’ sound on her own in between tutoring sessions. I also think next time I will also bring vocabulary cards. Overall it went really well and I am excited to be working with Youngseo.
Hey Lindsey. Glad to hear your first TP experience went well! My first TP session is tonight and after reading your blog I feel much more confident about how the session will go. It sounds like you were very prepared for your session with all the materials you brought along with you. My TP is also a young girl from South Korea. After reading how she liked the stickers and coloring books it seems that is a good material to bring to my first session.
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