Celina_TP #8

For this week's tutoring session with my child tutee Yunseo, we worked again on writing skills and reading comprehension. This week she had started another Magic Treehouse book about an adventure in ancient Mesopotamia so it was packed with a good balance of cultural context that kept her interested and helped her learn some new things. Her reading is really improving, and she is able to pronounce tougher words better. I always explain to her the importance of breaking down words she is having a hard time with. This skill lets her sound things out more accurately and then I tell her to look at the surrounding words in the sentence to find some context for a definition.
After we read a fair amount of the novel, Yunseo insisted that we continue working on her story about her monster character, and I agreed we could continue writing if we could use some new vocab words from our readings. She has started to get the hang of things and actually scrolled through the reading herself to find words she was previously unsure of. Before she writes down the words on the slips of paper we use, I have her give me a definition so that I do not have to explain the words to her again. She then gives me a definition and uses it in some context. This is just an easy way for me to check her comprehension and make sure that we don't need to focus more on reading.
Her writing skills are definitely starting to improve more. I noticed that she has been spending much less time carefully making her letters perfect and spacing things out perfectly. This is really important since one of the first things her mother asked me to work on with her was writing more quickly.