Salah TS # 15

Salah TS # 15 (Child)

Date/Time: 22/4/15  17:50-18:50

Location: Leroy Collins Public Library

Topic/Skill: Speaking and pronunciation, words with a silent 'e', world geography/languages. 

This was my final child TS session.  I have really enjoyed meeting this family once a week and Young is a very bright student who has been a pleasure to tutor.  

To start this session, I thought I would work a bit on speaking and pronunciation.  I asked Young to tell me the rest of the Cinderella story (from memory of movies she has seen etc).  I listened and corrected for pronunciation.  Young's mother has  told me before that she wants to focus on Young's speaking skills. 

Then we moved onto spelling words again with a silent 'e', but with the letter 'o' in the middle ex: hope, rope, code etc.  We also talked about the word 'cot', how the absence of a silent 'e' at the end of that word changed the way it sounds.

We then looked at high frequency words like: where, look, too, for etc, also part of Young's assigned class homework.

Lastly, we went back to a geography exercise that has been a favorite/staple of our TS sessions.  We play a game whereby I point to a specific country on the world map and ask Young, for example: 'this is Nigeria....what language do they speak there?'  It is a useful exercise to teach world geography as well as world languages.