TS # 12

For this tutoring session with PJ, Ms. Kim suggested that I find some reading material for PJ online on my own. I found this to be actually a very helpful task for me as a tutor, for I will certainly have to utilize online resources in the future when in search of reading materials for tutors. I decided on a short story about the history of chocolate in the United States. The story revolved around Milton Hershey, the founder of Hershey Chocolate company. I showed PJ a video of chocolate being made in a chocolate factory, and this certainly seemed to intrigue him. Now that I understood how PJ best learns, I again made sure to read the story with him slowly and made sure to stop every couple of lines in order to recap and recall together what we had just read. We spent almost all of the whole session reading this story and completing comprehension questions prior. I would ask PJ fundamental questions about the story multiple times-- not because I didn't think he would grasp it, but because he never seemed to want to make the effort to grasp it. This seemed to awaken him and force him to pay attention to the fundamental ideas of the story.