Selene TP-2

My second tutoring session with Soongyu consisted of a reading assignment. Since we are both interested in social welfare and class inequity, I searched online and found this article which explores the effect that surrounding neighborhoods have on low-income teenagers. I explained the SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review) method to Soongyu and then I asked her to read the article. I gave her one minute to skim the article and then I asked her to formulate any questions she might have about it at that point. Since she is a social studies researcher, her question was whether the study was done in a scientifically correct way, and what the findings of the study were. She then began reading the article in its entirety, pausing when she did not understand something and discussing it with me. She did not have much trouble with the reading and pronounced it to be an "easy" level for her. I found the article on Newsela, which allowed me to choose the level of difficulty of the reading. I picked 1070L, which is equivalent to "medium" difficulty (7th grade, 849 words) because I thought it would be better to begin with something that is too easy rather than too hard. Next time, I will increase the difficulty of the exercise.