Tutoring Session #13 (Jun)
February 20th, 2015
18:00-18:30
Tonight’s tutoring session continued on with Blizzard of the Blue Moon. Jun had mostly finished the book by this
point, and I had already completely finished it, so we worked through the
remaining chapter and a half he had left. His reading is getting smoother with
more practice, but I worry that just us tutoring half an hour a week isn’t
really enough to be sustainable practice.
After finishing the book, we made up a few alternative endings. It
was important to make sure that each ending was plausible, and if Jun made up
one that didn’t make sense, I would remind him of different scenes from the
story. He’d then explain why his ending wouldn’t work, and then reworked the
story until he found an ending that fit.
I think this sort of exercise is important for children his age,
because it helps promote logical and critical thinking. When Jun has
comprehension issues, it’s usually concerning higher level interpretive skills,
not face value comprehension. He asks “why” far more often than “what,” so I
hope that this exercise helps him to better learn how to piece events together
to form a whole, and then synthesize a solution from the details.
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