Matthew_TS#10

This lesson mainly consisted of helping Matthew and David to engage with what they are reading more. Both boys like to rush through their material. Sometimes they think reading is a race (don't forget they are 4th graders). I had them bring level appropriate chapter books and took turns reading with them. Occasionally, I would probe them for questions like "What do you think is going to happen next?", "Why do you think this happened?", or "What do you think this word means in this sentence". I later checked their comprehension with follow up questions and noticed that both boys could really respond better and were more focused than usual. I also incorporated some time to help them decode subject related math words like "Acute", "Obtuse", "Ray", "Line segment", and had the boys draw me definition and gave them a cute trick to remember that "Acute angles are small and cute", and "Obtuse angles are obese and large". They grasped the material better after this explanation.