Adrian Green - TS#16
Yesterday was my final tutoring session. I know, I was sad too. Anyways it actually went very well. I tried essentially fusing my teaching strategies with listening comprehension from my last 2 lessons; that of asking true/false statements and that of doing dictation. We had already made it a ways into the book we were using (How the Grinch Stole Christmas) so for this session there was much less schema I needed to build before hand. We went through the lesson by listening to a relatively short segment after I explained some schema, both background information and vocab, that was necessary for it. Once we had listened to the segment I would ask my tutee to do some dictation of the material we had covered. Then, closer to the end of the lesson, I began asking my tutee true/false statements about earlier parts of the story or about characters and events in the story. He seemed to understand the majority of these but for a few of them it was necessary and helpful to go back and review s