Corbin Ryan: Tutoring Session #15 with Christian

            This session, I was very pleasantly surprised to arrive to Christian’s house and find that he was bursting with energy to learn new things, unlike the last session when I had to resort to a back-up activity because it was painfully clear that he had no energy for the regular lesson-plan I prepared. 

            The plan I organized for this session went like this:

1.     Copy all upper and lower-case letters of the alphabet

2.     Find a word from a word-bank based on the first letter of the word, other sound-word associations he can find within the written word

3.     Read a couple books together

4.     Time permitting, letter-word association run of the alphabet

In the second activity, he was very interested in looking at a word from the word bank and spelling it himself. I was amazed that he wanted to try to learn something, whereas normally I’ve had to just trick him into learning.

During the activity he asked “Can I write this word”

Without any sort of hesitation, I said “Yeah! Sure, go ahead!!”

Without looking at the written words, he wrote out:

-Frog

-Yes

-Ball

-Pig

-You

-Six

-Dog

-No

-Book

-Us

-We

      I believe that his desire, not to mention ability to duplicate these words without looking at the word-bank demonstrates a huge leap for Christian. After the activity, I read to him a couple Curious George books I checked out from the LeRoy Collins Public Library, which was all we had time for.