Mane - TS#5


Tutoring #5

Abdulrahman and I continued with our reading lesson exactly the way we had done it in the previous tutoring session. He had a slightly easier time during this tutoring session, but a lot of work still needs to be done. We read a few other summaries and I had him highlight terms he found particularly difficult to understand. Instead of giving him the answers as to what those terms mean, we read the sentences over and over again until he was able to understand the terms from context clues. He knows what context clues are, but in the past lessons he had relied on me too much and didn’t use his own skills for comprehending a reading. This time around I stepped back a little and let him try and figure out the meaning from context clues. For words that he struggled with a lot, I gave him little clues until he himself arrived at the definition.

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