With this tutoring session with PJ I let him pick out a story from his textbook that he hasn't read yet. We read a story about a dragon being raised by a little girl. It was extensive reading, there were very few words that PJ did not understand. I would ask him at first after every 2 sentences what happened, but as time went on we would read a paragraph and then a page before I would ask him to stop and summarize what he just read. We read the entire story through during the tutoring session, he really liked the story. He did have some trouble at the end summarizing the entire story, explaining what happened. At times he lost focused and instead of summarizing he would just guess. To relax we talked about mine craft, a game that PJ likes to play, we did this for about 5 minutes before beginning the story again.
Taking breaks during his reading really helped PJ concentrate on his reading. It stops him from burning out during tutoring so from this lesson on I began to take small breaks in the tutoring session so that PJ would begin concentrating.
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