Ryan TS# 5


    I’ve had my second tutoring session with Amnazo’s family. This time it was just Amnazo and her two sons, Omari and Kiza. I went in expecting to spend most of the day trying to help improve their reading and spelling skills, but I realized that the family still has trouble memorizing their alphabet especially the youngest son, Kiza. Realizing this, I had the family practice writing their alphabet. I also taught them the difference between vowels and consonants, and the short and long forms of vowels. This was meant to prepare the family’s reading skills and some of the inconsistencies that come with the sounds vowel represent. I felt that Amnazo was the only one that really paying attention and understood what I was saying, despite the fact that the two boys had the better English comprehension skills than she did.

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