Jenna TP#11

Met with my child tutee on Wednesday 10/15.

My tutee started by putting a group of Halloween themed words in alphabetical order and then glued them to a worksheet. I allowed her to color the pictures next to the words before glueing. As she was doing this, I asked if she knew what the vocabulary meant (they were words like bat, candy corn, Dracula, etc.) and she knew most of them. The ones she didn't know I explained and gave her example sentences.

I had brought a book from last week by Lemony Snicket with me because my tutee liked it, so we then read that again. Before we would turn a page I asked my tutee to predict what happened next- thus working on memory and retention. I turned the pages, but my tutee read the whole book aloud by herself.

After that I taught my tutee how to complete a basic Halloween themed crossword. She had never done one before, so at first she tried to fit the whole word in a single box. When I corrected her she didn't need prompting again to fill the other boxes and answers- she had successfully made the transfers.

We ended by reading a chapter out of a children's chapter book. I stopped and checked multiple times for understanding.