Celina_TP #14

For this weeks tutoring session, Yunseo and I worked more on reading comprehension and using vocabulary words from the readings for writing passages. I was worried that using the same strategy and activities every week with Yunseo to work on writing and reading would be too tedious for her and she would become bored, but in fact she insists that we keep working on her story using the vocabulary we learn. To start off this week, we did a quick speed writing exercise to talk about her classroom. It works best if I write together with her during the exercise, this way it is sort of a relay race and she seems more motivated to get more written down. It is always difficult for her to start her paragraphs, so I try to scaffold the process for her. I always help her with the beginning of her introductions so that she doesn't get too frustrated with it and give up. She stumbled a little about finding adjectives to use in order to make descriptions, but we paddled through it and she ended up writing two full paragraphs in 10 minutes! After doing some speed writing, we moved on to reading. Yunseo used to be very eager to read, but lately I think she might be a little bored with the books she is reading so it is getting harder to encourage her to read more and stay focused. After we finished a chapter and a half of her book about Helen Keller, we moved on to our activity where we find new vocabulary words and use them to work on a new 'chapter' of her story about her monster. Her mother was really impressed after we finished the session with just how much Yunseo had written! She is after all, only a kindergartener!