Cameron TS#7

Hassad and I met again in the Dirac Library on February 20th. Hassad told me before the meeting that he wanted to work on his IELTS writing. I felt this task was going to be difficult for me because I was worried about having to explain strategies on taking on the writing portion of standardized testing. So, I found a website that gives a collection of strategies, methods of brainstorming, and how to write a five-paragraph essay in general. Although this was obviously too much to cover in one session, I wanted to be prepared for any question that he may ask. When giving him a prompt to write about, I felt the most effective method of demonstrating all this knowledge was through modeling. So, I modeled how the strategies showed how to brainstorm and asked him to replicate his own method that fits his needs. I did this for each step. I show him how I would write my own introduction, then body paragraphs, and finally the conclusion and had him replicate with his own prompt at each step. Again, the biggest issue was spelling. He could understand a word when speaking, but when he writes, he avoids a large portion of his vocabulary, because, perhaps, he was insecure about using words he may not be able to spell.