Tutoring Session #10
February 13th, 2015
18:00-18:30
This evening Jun and I worked through one of the Magic Tree House
books. I hadn’t realized that the series was still popular, but Jun had
acquired a number of them recently. I went to the bookstore yesterday to pick
up a couple that I remembered him having, namely, Blizzard of the Blue Moon and Dragon
of the Red Dawn. For today, we focused on the former.
Before we started reading, I asked Jun to look at the cover and
synopsis on the back of the book, so he could make some predictions about what
would happen in the story. Also, because the book references The Great
Depression, we took a couple minutes to talk about that period in American
History and why it would be important to the story.
There were fewer times this week that I had to remind Jun to slow
down his reading, or stop him so we could go over something he skipped. I think
that he is most used to reading silently, so sometimes his mouth doesn’t catch
up to how quickly his mind is reading. He almost never has issues in
comprehension, and if he does find something confusing, he will stop right then
and ask, so I think the problem has more to do with a lack of practice reading
aloud than a lack of reading skill in general.
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