Jenna TP#3

I tutored my child tutee again today, Monday 9/8 in the late afternoon after school was over. Last time I learned that my tutee was extremely advanced (only 5 years old and the ability to read and write fluidly) so I sought to create activities that were more challenging. I have experience working with children so I created an agenda for my tutee that allowed her to change activities every few minutes to minimize off-taskness, although this is hardly necessary because my tutee is very attentive and respectful.

Since my tutee already knows the alphabet, I printed off a pumpkin themed worksheet for her to complete that involved filling in the missing letters of an alphabet. She completed that with no problem. Next I moved on to placing 6 words in alphabetical order. This was a new concept for her, as she didn't know what that meant. I explained it succinctly, as you do with little ones, and we dove into the activity. I pre-cut the words out of a worksheet I printed online and had my tutee glue them in order to the other side of the worksheet. She was a pro, no problems at all.

While the glue dried I moved onto some reading comprehension activities. I brought a small speaker and my iPhone to play the audiobook "Where the Wild Things Are" as read by Maurice Sendak. I chose to use the audiobook as a means of reading the book because children find that exciting and it has amazing background sounds that help with context. I had my tutee turn the pages, to ensure she was following along. She needed prompting only a few times, as she was looking at the pictures. After this, I had my tutee read the book again. Aloud, to me. She did this with a few errors in pronouncing the words "gnashing" and some other word I can't think of right now, but once I corrected her the errors weren't made again. We then moved on to a reading comprehension worksheet based on the novel, that I again printed from online, only I had her write out the answers on her own paper because she was itching to write with her pencil.

By this time the glue had dried on her previous worksheet, so I allowed her 6 minutes to color in the pictures. When that was done we did a strictly listening comprehension activity on the United States and its geography. It took all of 8 minutes and then it was time to go. I rewarded my tutee with stickers. Kids love stickers.