Friday, September 4th
On Friday, September 4th, I had my second tutoring session with PJ. This was my first time tutoring PJ alone. During this session, I had PJ read a passage about spiders from his fourth grade textbook. I began by talking to him about spiders and asking what he thought about them. Though he didn't particularly like them, I describe a few of the cool abilities of spiders, such as web building and catching prey, to get him interested. I would have PJ read to the end of each page and then pause to test his comprehension of what he just read. I would ask a few questions going over the basic facts in the story, such as the names of the spiders body parts or the types of webs they can make.
After reading a few pages, I would choose a particularly interesting fact on the spiders, such as how they molt their skin. I would then show PJ a YouTube video of a real spider doing what he had just read about. I did 4 separate times during the lesson to help reiterate the subject PJ has just read. After we finished the passage, I used PJ's whiteboard to go over some of the vocabulary and concepts in the story, such as predator vs. prey, how spiders grow, and how they lay eggs. We also drew and labeled the different body parts mentioned in the text.
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