Sushila TP #15

TP #15

Date: 10/20/14

Time: 4-5

Location: Tallahassee public library 

I meet with my child tutee Matthew. Today our agenda was slightly different instead of reading comprehension and math word problems we went over a practice mini-quiz he was assigned. First I had him do the quiz alone. Then I checked his answers. He got the entire first page, which consisted of mainly vocabulary, correct. The only question he got wrong on the back. The backside of his quiz contained a passage on echolocation and 6 questions to test his comprehension. The question he got wrong was one that he could not obtain the answer directly from the article. The question was, “What question could you ask about bats that was not answered in the article?”. I helped him figure out the answer by asking him questions such as, “What do bats use echolocation for?” He would answer, “to find food”. Then I would ask, “When do bats hunt food?” He would answer, “at night”. Then I would continue asking him various questions that were answered in the article. Finally I told him “you know where, how, and when bats hunt food, but what don’t you know from this?” Finally he figured it out and asked me, what kind of food do bats eat? After we corrected his wrong answer, I had him go through the entire quiz and explain to me why he chose the answers he did. Then we proceeded to review spelling. He had a list that contained about 150 words such as, university, butterscotch, brilliant, tongue, molecule, surplus etc. He knew how to spell more than half of the words we covered. For the words he didn’t spell correctly I would have him follow a pyramid scheme by writing the first letter, then underneath it writing the first and second letter, and so forth until he wrote the entire word. For example the word binocular he would write

B

Bi

Bin

Bino

Binoc

Binocu

Binocul

Binocula

Binocular

We did not have time to cover every word on the list but we got through a bulk of them. Afterwards he was extremely excited to receive his twix bar, then suddenly disappointed when I gave it to his mother so she could administer his sugar intake. I will have my last tutoring session with him soon, and I never thought I would say this, but I actually might miss tutoring him L