Dennis TS#5

For my 3^rd session with Julio, I started by reinforcing the parts of speech lesson with a quiz. This would prove to be useful as he began to differentiate between verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc, so he would be able to understand what I was building up to: subject/verb agreement, which was essentially his biggest issue. I also wanted to focus on prepositions again this lesson because he had cemented some odd misuses of prepositional phrases into his productive vocabulary. I used a scavenger hunt activity to pick out a number of objects in the surrounding area of Lake Ella (moss, bench, folder, bicycle, etc), and then he would write a sentence expressing its location using prepositions. He did well with this exercise, and only needed a couple corrections. I had another worksheet prepared to bring the lesson up to a more challenging level. I helped coach him through a fill-in-the-blank exercise where he needed to use phrasal verbs to complete sentences. It was difficult for him, but I felt the challenge was a good step forward from simpler prepositions.