Thursday, October 1, 2015

Ellen TS#12

Tutee: PJ Chang
Date/Time: Saturday 26 September 2015, 10:30-11:30 am

I felt very informed and prepared for this tutoring session. I had met with PJ’s teacher, Ms. Keaton, and she told me more about the learning process in her classroom. She specifically told about the best way to use the language arts books that she had provided Professor Kim with previously in the year. The correct method for using the books together involves pairing the chapters and stories according to the vocabulary and the learning objectives. She also told me about what the next upcoming test would be covering in her class. They specific skills they would be working on were context clues and cause and effect. So for the tutoring session with PJ this Saturday I selected a reading section that would utilize these skills.

Each section is accompanied by vocabulary. Usually I would go over the vocabulary first but for this lesson instead of going through the new words first, we jumped ahead to the story and used context clues to figure out which each of the words meant. After using this tactic to understand context clues I went over cause and effect. We went back over the story and looked for examples of cause and effect. I hope PJ now has a good foundation to understand these skills when Ms. Keaton covers it in class.

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