Damil_TP_#10

Child TP- #6

2/10/2015

6:30 pm

CIES Classroom

Topic/Skill:

-Reading Comprehension

-Vocabulary

Today I tutored PJ Chang at the CIES building after class. One of my fellow classmates, Meredith, joined us for the session. While preparing for his tutoring session I reviewed his main homework assignment, which was a reading comprehension essay about school children requesting and receiving from their teacher a list of steps that had to be completed in order to have a successful school play. I knew that PJ was a third grader, so when he told me that he didn’t know what a school play was, it was no surprise. So we began our tutoring session by watching a short comical video about theatrical plays that I had had in mind. This helped PJ understand the story very well and the comprehension questions that followed.

During our tutoring session Meredith helped me a lot to explain words that I could not have otherwise done on my own. I learned that having someone to observe and give feedback during a tutoring session really helps one see things that one cannot on their own. Towards the end of our session I had Meredith and PJ play an alternate version of the game “Hangman” called “Hang Mouse” from an educational website. PJ really enjoyed the game and was able to learn new vocabulary about Basketball.