I tutored Marcelle at Gilchrest Elementary for an hour today on February 11, 2019. We worked some more on compound words. Marcelle cut some flashcards and then we went over them. She knew how to say a lot of the words, however, it was because of the picture, not because she can read the words. So after that, she practiced her reading and writing by writing some of the words from the flashcards and I would say each letter as she wrote them so that she could learn what the letters are called and what letters together form what word. Then I read her a book and went over some other flashcards about animals.
My next tutoring session was with Turki. We met at the Starbucks on Tennessee Street, the usual spot, and started the session with a causal conversation about life and his short term English goals. Turki decided he didn't want to continue with the second session of CIES classes, and that he wanted to rather focus solely on passing the IELTS exam. He said he found the CIES classes to be helpful, but also distracting. He said he thinks he's gotten the most out of his classes and that it would be more productive for him to study on his own. Where I don't completely agree with his logic, it is his life and I trust his decision making. For this session he brought his own material that he wanted to focus on. This time it was a reading passage that I even found to be quite difficult, and I was once again impressed by his far reach in practice and ability. The reading passage was accompanied by a set of numerous comprehension questions that we reviewed and answered together. The qu...
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