Damil_TP_#14

Child TP-#7
2/16/2015
7pm
PJ Chang House
Topic/ Skill:
-Reading Comprehension
-Vocabulary

Today I went to PJ’s house for his tutoring session this evening. I went a little bit earlier to before our session to prepare and preview the material that we were going to study. His mother handed me a reading comprehension assignment and some of his assignments he had completed in class as usually. The reading comprehension assignment was about a little girl staying with her grandmother for a month during her summer vacation. I remembered that in our first tutoring session together, PJ had told me that he had visited his grandmother in Hawaii in the past. So when began our session together, we began sharing our experiences of visiting our grandmothers as small children as a schema building activity. Once we read the essay and began the questions and answer section, we drew upon our prior conversation and the included illustrations to evaluate the answers to the questions.

As he has in the past 2 weeks, PJ has demonstrated that he understands what he reads and was able to answer most of the questions with little guidance. I have taught PJ that if he cannot fully understand a question on his own, he should try to draw the context meaning of the question thou the answers by process of elimination. This means that every time PJ did not understand a question, he should look at the multiple answers given to him to guess what it is asking and eliminate wrong answers as he discovers them to end up with only the correct one. After we completed the reading comprehension assignment together, we reviewed a short reading comprehension assignment he had had in class. It was a bibliography about Wilson A. Bently, also known as the Snowflake man. Once we completed this activity, we played a few games of Hang Mouse hang man game.