Kerri TS #5

I skyped tonight with Jun for our second tutoring session tonight. Since there is a 13 hour time difference between Tallahassee and South Korea, our sessions begin later in the evening for me. Today we focused on reading and speaking, specifically summarizing. When I first started corresponding with Jun's mother, she told me he needed help with that aspect of his English. This was our first full length session, so I began with him reading for me out loud and moved on to a fun picture game to conclude. He read two short children's books to me; One was titled Duck for President and Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend. I would occasionally stop Jun when he was reading for him to tell me about the pictures or ask a comprehensive reading question. After we finished reading, I sent Jun ten photographs one by one and asked him to pick a word to describe the picture, much like we did in class the other day. He did a good job of summarizing what was happening in the photographs, and he seemed to enjoy that I set the activity up like a game. I think he was definitely more interested in our session today. Next week I will prepare a similar exercise today, so he feels like he is having fun while learning.