Mane - TS#12


Tutoring #12

For our first class, PJ and I read a story about a family that is drowning in debt but still attempts to keep up appearances. I read the story in advance to prepare for the class. The story was very long so I decided to divide it into a few different sections and came up with questions to ask PJ after each section. The questions served three purposes. They were meant to check PJ’s reading comprehension, to make sure that he did not miss anything integral to the story line, and schema building for the next section coming up. Before staring the reading, PJ and I read the comprehension questions at the end of the story. Reading the questions ahead of time will help PJ in knowing what he is supposed to look for while reading the text it will also give him a better idea of what the story is about. After reading the questions, we read the summary for the story and then started reading the actual story. Since the story was long and we stopped throughout the story so that I can ask questions, we did not have enough time to completely finish it. So, we continued the rest of the story during the next session.

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