I met with Astin and his mom at FSU’s Stone building today
at 1. Astin was already finishing up with Lora and we asked each other what we’ve
been teaching him. From what I learned, she’s been doing almost the same thing
as I have, except she asks him some comprehension questions to make sure he’s
paying attention. This is something I wanted to incorporate into my session as
well. Additionally, she encounters the same problems as me; namely Astin
replacing some words in the passage with another. This isn’t a big problem as
it doesn’t affect the meaning but I want to get him into the habit of reading
the words as it says. As I have been busy this whole week, I didn’t print out
any worksheets for him to do so we spent the session finishing up The Cat in
the Hat Comes Back. Of course, Astin replaced words again and I asked him to
repeat the proper word for each. As his mother noticed, he is very curious as
he asks what the words mean. He’s also not sure how to pronounce some words and
asks me; while I’ll tell him how to pronounce the hard words, I encourage him
to sound it out. Our experience was really enjoyable and Astin really like the
story. Unfortunately Astin and his family are going to be out of town next week
so our final meeting day will be the 24th (time TBA), a little close for
comfort as I will be preparing to move near the end of the month.
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