Location: P.J.’s house
Topic/Skill: Reading Punctuation
Feedback provided to tutee:
On his white board, I wrote down 4 different types of punctuation for P.J. and I to work on this session. I wrote down comma, period, exclamation, and question marks so that he could see the symbols, wrote their names next to them, and how to read them aloud. (A comma is a pause, a period is a breath, for an exclamation you raise both pitch and volume, for a question you raise pitch on the last word)
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned:
I learned that punctuation is a hard topic for readers, even if they comprehend what they are reading. It requires a lot more focus than they are used to. Throughout the lesson, P.J. got better a reading the different types of punctuation. Although I had to get him to really focus sometimes. Giving him reading material that interested him helped a lot as well. I think that for this type of lesson it is best to give reading material that they can read easily (95% of the vocabulary is familiar). This is an on-going lesson for P.J. and I think that I will work on it with him again next session while combining reading comprehension.
No comments:
Post a Comment