May 2nd, 6pm
Public Library
Writing/Grammar/Assessment of Needs
My other student tutee is actually Matthew Hong's twin brother, David Hong. I see them separately, because together they get distracted.. Anyway, like his brother, David doesn't have too much interest in reading or writing. He doesn't even like scary stories, but he likes to laugh! So we wrote down some jokes and funny stories and told them to each other. I think David has a better understanding of his vocabulary, but his punctuation and syntax is worse than Matthew's. I think I'm going to have to do a lot of sentence diagramming with both brothers, or even do punctuation exercises. Also, I'm going to try and make them create sentences and stories with the vocab words they each have to learn for class every week. I also want to tie in their interests with what we practice, in order to stimulate some intrinsic motivation and instill a desire for them to read and write. I definitely want to begin with finding things they would actually enjoy to read, however.
What I learned: an activity Matthew really liked was when I had him create a mathematical word problem. He loves math, so he was more excited to create a scenario that included a mathematics. I'm going to try and see how I can continued to develop an interest in writing through his fascination with math.
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