Thursday, February 12, 2009

Tutoring a First Grader, an introduction.

Tutoring a first grade boy can be interesting. My student Jackie is cute as a button. He begins with a taciturn attitude, all quiet and serious. Soon he becomes quite entertaining.

The first time we met I used sight word cards and a story for us to read aloud. When he got all but two of them on the first pass, I put several cards in a pile and had him choose some to make a sentence. Then I added more cards to his choices and he added them to the sentences, then he made a new sentences.

That showed me he knew the meaning of the words he could pronounce.

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