On February 12th, I went to Zoe's house for tutoring, and I brought Tim along with me to observe. We went right into her reading comprehension book--I asked if she wanted to do the owl page like we had talked about the previous week, but she settled on "going to the zoo" instead. I had her read the story to me and then answer the questions. Zoe didn't think the dialog was realistic--I asked her why she thought it wasn't, and she said that if it were her family, she'd either be sleeping or watching a movie, which we thought was pretty funny.
After the exercise, I asked if the reading made her want to go to a zoo--she said she doesn't like the zoos, and loves national parks. This lead to her getting out every single national park Junior Ranger book, pin and badge that she has collected over her travels. Tim and I were very impressed, and Zoe read us some instructions and her work in the Junior Ranger books. It wasn't a very concrete lesson, but she was speaking quite a bit during this session.
Overall it was a very fun lesson, because she was so animated and motivated to talk about her passion--a reminder that using student's own interests as a topic is a great plan.
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