Daniella TS #7 and #8

 Tutoring session #7 and# 8: November 4th


Date/Time: Saturday november 4th 3:30

Location: Student union

Topic/Skill: Decoding skills 

Feedback provided to the tutee: Today we started with decoding skills. These included 5 patterns. I came up with a list of words and it was a lot of repetition after me then reading paragraphs that had alot of the words planted in there. The feedback I was able to provide was that Miguel genuinely just did not know the sounds of vowels and how they differentiated. Therefore I pulled up clips from the movie leapfrog's letter factory. It’s a children’s cartoon that goes through each of the vowel sounds by giving them a personality. It was very helpful in him being able to learn to pronounce the vowels. Then in the passage the consonants he had difficulties with I pulled up the clips from those letters as well 



Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I learned that it’s important to for lack of better words commit to the bit. Miguel often exclaims that his English is a disaster and it won’t get better. And when one plays like children shows it can often cause him to say such things. Therefore when I play these videos I make sure to sing along with him as often they do have silly songs to learn. And this makes him feel better even though we do laugh along together. However I do notice that often this material that is usually directed to children makes him improve significantly in his pronunciation. Which is why I try to make it as positive an experience as possible.


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