Mallory TS#3
Saturday, January 27
2:00pm-3:00pm
Today I met with Marcia again and we worked on some of her grammar. She told me that she struggles with knowing when to use 'to' versus when to use 'for', so I pulled up several different activities/worksheets on my laptop that we went through and worked on together. I tried my best to explain the reasoning for any of them that she got wrong, and she seemed to always understand why her answer was incorrect after I explained it to her. Even if I struggled at explaining the propper rules the way her teacher might, I gave many examples and showed her different ways that each word was used, and she was able to combine that information with what she already knows about the rules, and understand the actual reasoning behind the use of each of them. After we went through the worksheets, I asked her if she thought they were helpful just to make sure I wasn't wasting time doing things that weren't actually benefiting her. She assured me that this did in fact help, and it was good to have more practice and other examples that weren't just straigh up 'rules', but more of 'in-context situations'. After this, she asked me to help her with some error corrections she had on an assignment. Her teacher had circled 3 of her mistakes, and she tried to correct them on her own but they were still all incorrect, because she was misunderstanding what was wrong about them in the first place. Once I explained the actual error and gave her a similar example with the correction for one of the errors, she was able to understand the correction for the other two. We spent the last bit of our time working on the use of the words 'other vs another'. Next time we meet I am going to bring some material to review these two topics that we went over, to continue giving her practice and to ensure that she understood what we talked about this time. We will also work on her punctuation next time, because she said she struggles with that and her teachers always correct her. She told me she will try to bring a composition of hers or some homework, that way I have something to work with her on and can see what type of errors she is making. I really enjoy working with Marcia, she is so sweet, always eager to learn, and great at paying attention and understanding my explanations.
2:00pm-3:00pm
Today I met with Marcia again and we worked on some of her grammar. She told me that she struggles with knowing when to use 'to' versus when to use 'for', so I pulled up several different activities/worksheets on my laptop that we went through and worked on together. I tried my best to explain the reasoning for any of them that she got wrong, and she seemed to always understand why her answer was incorrect after I explained it to her. Even if I struggled at explaining the propper rules the way her teacher might, I gave many examples and showed her different ways that each word was used, and she was able to combine that information with what she already knows about the rules, and understand the actual reasoning behind the use of each of them. After we went through the worksheets, I asked her if she thought they were helpful just to make sure I wasn't wasting time doing things that weren't actually benefiting her. She assured me that this did in fact help, and it was good to have more practice and other examples that weren't just straigh up 'rules', but more of 'in-context situations'. After this, she asked me to help her with some error corrections she had on an assignment. Her teacher had circled 3 of her mistakes, and she tried to correct them on her own but they were still all incorrect, because she was misunderstanding what was wrong about them in the first place. Once I explained the actual error and gave her a similar example with the correction for one of the errors, she was able to understand the correction for the other two. We spent the last bit of our time working on the use of the words 'other vs another'. Next time we meet I am going to bring some material to review these two topics that we went over, to continue giving her practice and to ensure that she understood what we talked about this time. We will also work on her punctuation next time, because she said she struggles with that and her teachers always correct her. She told me she will try to bring a composition of hers or some homework, that way I have something to work with her on and can see what type of errors she is making. I really enjoy working with Marcia, she is so sweet, always eager to learn, and great at paying attention and understanding my explanations.
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