Ryan TS# 15


   We started this tutoring session a little more random and unorganized than usual. I started using the FluentU app again and just like last time, the results were mixed. I followed that up with a lesson on the difference between vowels and consonants. I’m not really sure I did a good job explaining this difference effectively, especially when the lesson was given from someone with little explicit knowledge on the subject and the best explanation I gave was that vowels were the letters that were pronounced without using your lips or teeth. In hindsight that wasn’t a really good idea. I followed that up with a reading of a children’s book, originally using it as a way to have Omari and Kiza point to the letters that were vowels, segueing as a listening comprehension and vocabulary exercise, going over the words in the book that I felt they didn’t understand.

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