Sophie TS #10- Elia

Having learned my lesson from last time but still wanting to try something new, I showed up to this tutoring session with some more ideas, knowing we could always fall back on spelling if we needed to. I brought an old copy of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland that I had in my room, and worked on reading a portion of that with Elia. I was nervous because it was the original text, not a version adapted to be more kid-friendly, and I didn't know if the vocabulary would be too difficult for him or not. Paragraph by paragraph we took turns reading. At the end of every paragraph I would ask Elia if there were any words he didn't understand and explain those to him, as well as ones I thought needed explaining. I also helped him with pronunciation as he was reading particularly difficult words. Word by word, he didn't seem to have a problem and actually did surprisingly well, but as a whole I don't know how much of the content he processed. To sort of counter this I also tried to summarize what had happened so far after every paragraph. Once we had been reading for a while and I felt Elia was starting to get bored I pulled up a video on YouTube from the Disney cartoon of Alice, and showed him the scene we had just read through. By the end of the video all of his brothers had gathered around to watch too.