Emilie TS #4

Student: Geena K.
Date/Time: October 30th, 3 pm
Location: In-person, CIES Building
Topic: Reading (integrated)
Feedback provided to the tutee: I often checked in with her as we were reading to ask her if she understood particular words/phrases, and I also corrected her when she made pronunciation mistakes (not every single time, but occasionally). I also asked general comprehension questions about specific scenes and asked her to summarize what we had read so far at the end.
Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: Since Geena's goal is to improve her fluency and confidence in English, I thought reading a text out loud might be a good exercise for us to do. Since she likes Harry Potter and the first book is not too difficult, we read through about half the first chapter. I wanted to encourage her extensive reading, but it turned into more of an intensive lesson as there were more words/phrases I ended up wanting to explain to her than I thought. Since she has also ready Harry Potter before in Korean, I thought it would be a good text as she already has some background knowledge (schema). I also wanted to model how I wanted her to read her own book at home. It was an interesting lesson and I did notice that I think she became more confident/fluent the longer we went on, but next time I may incorporate more variety.

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