On Friday I had my third session with Youngseo. She is always so cute and cheerful when I first see her! This time I focused on making our session a bit more structured. I brought these big die with words on each side and had her toss them. Then, whatever word she got, she had to create a sentence on her own. This seemed challenging for her at first, to create a sentence instead of simply explain what a word meant. However, once I encouraged her she was able to create a few sentences. I could see that she was really thinking a lot, and creating, instead of just identifying.
After creating sentences, we moved to reading. Reading is definitely something she needs more practice with. She seems to get distracted or bored if there are too many words she doesn’t know. Even though I can explain the words as we go along, she is only five, so if I stop too often the story becomes choppy and she becomes bored.
The first book we read was a simple one her parents had brought about a farm. I asked her what she thought would happen before we started reading, so as to activate her schema. I could tell she had read the book before because all of her predictions came true. I thought that book was too easy for her, as there weren’t that many words. So, we read a book about Dumbo which I had brought for her. I decided that this was too challenging for her. There were many words she didn’t know. Sometimes she got excited learning new words, but if I wasn’t able to explain a certain word in an exciting or fun way, she quickly got bored. I think I will get more reading materials and hopefully next time we will find the perfect balance of exciting and challenging for her level.
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