Celina_TP #4

     For my second tutoring session with my child tutee, I came up with a more entertaining writing exercise. We started off our session by reading some of her new Magic Treehouse book, she pretty much reads a whole book each week! This time the adventure took the main characters into the deserts of ancient Iraq, so there were some very exotic challenging words for Yunseo to get through. She read about half a chapter and then I bargained with her by reading the last few pages myself. Next we went over her homework for school. It was very simple writing work, it just had her write her name and some letters. The homework was a bit of a surprise to me because Yunseo is much more advanced than that and has been writing full paragraphs during our sessions! After her homework I came up with an idea to make our writing exercises more fun. I ripped up a piece of paper and scrolled through the chapter book we had been reading. I found random yet more challenging words from the novel and wrote each one down on a slip of paper and folded each slip. Then, I had Yunseo choose three of the slips and read each word to me. The task of the exercise was to write a story using sentences with each of the words she had picked. We decided that our "story" was going to be an adventure about her monster she had drawn. It was really entertaining for the both of us, and it got her to utilize some of the new vocabulary she had learned. I am glad I prepped for this session with this game! I hope next week I can make up an equally as fun plan.