Selene TP-9

Matthew and I worked on a reading comprehension worksheet from ReadWorks.org today. The title of the short text was "A Constitution for Kids" and it was about a woman who wrote a kid-friendly version of the U.S. Constitution. The worksheet was given to me by Matthew's mother and, although it was a well-constructed activity, I think the reading level was not very challenging for him. His main problem with answering the questions was that he kept getting distracted and goofing around. Whenever he got a question right he would say it was an "educated guess", which made it hard to tell whether he actually didn't know the answer and had just gotten lucky. He doesn't respond very well to worksheets and I don't blame him. Most of the topics are very bland and don't apply to his life or interests at all. On the bright side, he seems much more comfortable with me now and is willing to do any activity I ask of him with only minimal complaining.