Salah TS # 11

Salah (Child)  TS # 11: 

Date/Time: 8/4/15  17:50-18:50

Location: Leroy Collins Public Library

Topic/Skill: contractions, letter sounds, handwriting, new vocab

For this tutoring session, I wanted to focus on the use of 'contractions' and brought a printout of common contractions to assist me.  

I explained that we use contractions mainly to save time and used the example of Young’s name (her name is actually Youngseo), but most people just call her Young for short.  

We started with some of the more common examples such as: should not – shouldn’t etc.  She seemed to get the idea fairly quickly.  

Young had also brought some homework to work on.  We went through a few letter sounds like Rr, Qq, Tt, Bb etc.  I asked her to write out a line for each letter pair (to practice handwriting the letters) and then we went over the sound.  Finally, I asked her to try to think of words that had that sound in it) ex: Rr - sound - Robot etc.  I also tried to come up with a few words, if she was stuck. 

Other homework topics included: spelling words with a silent 'e', such as: cape, game, lake, base etc. and high frequency words like: help, too, have, they etc.

Young was going to have a birthday in two days, so I told her that next time I saw her, she would be 6 years old!