For this tutoring session with my child tutee, Claire, her mom requested
that we work on defining and using nouns.
First, Claire read me a story about a truck. While the book was not very
challenging for Claire and didn’t have many new words in it, she clearly
enjoyed it. I think it is
important to sometimes just give tutees/ students a chance to remember why it
is they are putting all this effort into mastering a language. In Claire’s
case, reading opens up a whole other world for her, and she is always very
excited and engaged while reading.
After that, we worked in Claire’s workbook on nouns. First, I defined what a noun was: a
part of speech that is a person, place, or thing. Then, I pointed out different
objects/animals/people in Claire’s house and asked her if it was a noun (aka
pointed to a lamp, pointed to a fish, pointed to Claire’s mom). Then we
completed a worksheet where Claire had to fill in the blank with various nouns.
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