Celina_TP #6

For my last tutoring session, I met with Yunseo and we went over reading and writing skills. We started off our session by completing her homework from school that day. Her homework is really not a challenge for her at all which is a little frustrating for her I think because she is so much more advanced than her expected level. Because she is moving back to South Korea this summer though, I worry that her advanced level of English will diminish a little bit if she is not speaking it every day and working on it with a tutor. It really would be a shame though because she is really smart and has a well developed knowledge of the english language for her age. After we finished and reviewed her homework we worked on some reading. I wanted to focus more on pronunciation of words this day so I had her read very carefully and listened for any particular errors I heard. This weeks novel was a kids history version of Thomas Edison's life. I probably wouldn't have chosen the book because I don't think she was very interested in the topic of how electricity was created. And keep interest is very important when working with kids, especially when its in regards to academics. She would get bored with whatever she was reading out loud to me and just stop and sit there. It was a little frustrating for me at first, but I figured I could coax her to read more if I promised I would read after her. Splitting up tasks is an easy way for me to persuade her to do anything actually, whether its reading outloud or speed writing or writing with new vocab words. If I promise her I am going to complete the same task as her, then it gets like a competition and she seems more inclined to do it. After our time reading, we did our usual activity of writing down new and challenging vocabulary words from the reading section and using them in her story about her imaginary monster. The one benefit of the tedious reading was that it did offer some very challenging new words, so it made for a much more productive writing practice.