I met with my child tutee Jun this morning. His mother showed me a few worksheets Jun had trouble with at school and asked me to go over them with him. The main problem he was having was distinguishing the different pronunciations between words like cough, dough, tough, thorough, and though. IHis worksheet asked him to put them in three different categories "aw", "long o," and "u." I had Jun put each word into the correct category while going over their pronunciations. He was having the most trouble with though and thorough, which is understandable. As we moved on to other topics I would give him a "pop quiz" and have Jun put the words in their correct categories again, he had them all correct by the end of our meeting.
We then read in his science book from his school. I had Jun read the book aloud and I asked him comprehension questions as we went. Our last activity was a writing exercise. He wanted to do some free-writing, so I let him write a story about Superman.
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