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Valerie TS #2

Today, January 25, 2019, I tutored Marcelle at Gilchrest Elementary for the second time. I first went over the French-English picture dictionary with her and read several pages, stopping at a page with letters starting with the letter C. She seemed more talkative this time. For example, when I turned to the page showing candy and cake, she immediately pointed at them excitedly and said their names.  Then she started talking about crepes, so I asked her if she eats them for breakfast. I think she has a lot of receptive understanding of what I say, but not necessarily productive command of many vocabulary words. She also has some trouble pronouncing words, so it was a little difficult understanding what she was trying to say. However, I got the gist of it and then asked her some follow up questions. I asked her who makes cakes and she said her uncle. She told me her mom makes crepes so then I asked her what she puts on them and if she eats it for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. After that we went over some flashcards about food and random things to know, and went over a few letters. I would then say a letter and ask her to point to all of them that she saw on the back of the flashcards (where it said the names of the items) and she got them all right. I did this to introduce her and get her familiar with the alphabet, so that eventually she can start learning to read and write. Afterwards, she picked a book and I read it to her. It was from the same series that I read the first time with an elephant and a pig. I saw a lot of progress this session, so I am looking forward to seeing her progress even more, especially in reading over the course of the next several weeks.

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