Taylor TP#14

Taylor Simpson
TP #14
Goldstein Library
10/22/14

On Wednesday I met with Ademir and Gabriela and the Goldstein Library. They each only had a little bit of homework to work on so I helped them as much as I could. Gabriela had homework practicing prefixes and suffixes. There were sentences with underlined words, the assignment was to replace the underlined word with a word using a prefix or suffix that had a similar meaning. For example the sentence might be: "In Antarctica the temperature is often below zero." The student would replace the underlined phrase with "subzero".  Some problems  were very easy for her, but others were more difficult because the answers sounded weird to her. I told her that with practice they would come to sound more natural.
Ademir had an assignment to write down a log of new words he learned and their definitions. He asked me to talk about my day and he would ask me about any unfamiliar words that I used. This ended up not really working because he has a very large English vocabulary. We ended up finding a dictionary and finding new words that he didn't know that way. We would look up a word he would write it down with the definition and then we would make sentences with the word, because it is important to teach vocabulary in context.