Today, February 20, 2019, I tutored Marcelle for the last time at Gilchrist Elementary from 10 till 11:10 am. In class she was going over grouping words with the same sounds together, so she brought her slips of paper with the words and we worked on grouping them in the library. Then she wrote a few of them on the board and I pointed to each letter so she could tell me what they are called. I went over the sound certain letters make together ans she was able to read a few words. In the end, she finished the three tracing worksheets, front and back, for the remaining letters U, V, W, X, Y, and Z.
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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