Tonight I met with PJ and we did our regular two activities, reading from the Florida Reading book and doing some homework worksheets from PJ's school. I tried to be more positive this session because I'd read in our book that students attitudes towards learning is directly affected by the teacher's attitude, so I wanted to be more up-beat and I think I noticed a difference. I was also more open to PJ telling me what he wanted to do rather than me just insisting on what we were going to do and how we were going to do it. So I asked him what he wanted to work on first and he chose the homework.
The first sheet was a vocabulary exercise about landmarks and monuments. We matched words with similar words and then used two of them in sentences. The next sheet was about the St. Louis Arch and was pretty hard. We had to figure out the main idea and three key ideas from the passage, this was similar to some homework that I had worked on before with PJ, but a little more vague as far as what we were asked to fill in for the three key ideas. I coached him a little and we were able to finish the worksheet.
We moved on to reading. This was the third time we had read from the Florida Reading book and I think its a really good book. It has a lot of stories on many different things so with just a few flips of the pages you can find a good story with some questions already made up at the end for you to use for comprehension. The only problem is sometimes the questions ask you to compare two stories, and if you've only read one then you can't properly answer some of the questions. But tonight, I had PJ read one of the stories out loud and then I read the other ( to save some time and to test PJ's comprehension of something he's read versus something he has heard read to him). It was a very good exercise and when we read the questions at the end PJ was able to compare both stories and discuss the answers to the questions with me until our time ran out.
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