Taylor
TP #7
9/20/14
PJ's House
On Saturday I tutored PJ again at his house. Again he had an assignment that his teacher had sent back and asked him to correct. We reread the story about Chicago, the city of parades. After reading it a second time he was able to correct his own mistakes on the multiple choice comprehension questions.
The writing portion was a little more tricky for him. The story was called "How Pasta Came to America" and the question asked him to explain how pasta came to America based on the three main steps described in the story. First, I suggested we just discuss the answer, he need a lot of guidance to create an answer for the first step and when I asked him to repeat what we had just discussed he had trouble remembering. To help him organize his thoughts we used the white board. I wrote the numbers 1, 2, and 3 on the board and had him fill in the steps. With out the pressure of having to write complete sentences he was able to fill in the blanks easier. Once his ideas were organized and laid out in simple phrases it made it a lot easier for him to answer the question in a paragraph form. His grammar in writing seems to be improving.
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