Today on February 4, 2019 I tutored Marcelle at Gilchrest Elementary for an hour. We went over the letters we've gone over before on the whiteboard and then she traced new letters on the worksheets. She practiced writing the new letters on the whiteboard and then I would quiz her by pointing to a letter and asking her to tell me what it is called or by saying a letter and asking her to point to the correct one. Then I read her her book and then we went over some flashcards. She was a little restless this tutoring session and wouldn't sit still, but she is starting to retain some of the letters, which is very good. Before I finish all of my tutoring sessions with her, my goal is to teach her how to write all of the letters and hopefully she'll be able to recognize all of them and tell me their names. This is the foundation for her to be able to read.
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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