Sophie TS #7- Elia

My next meeting with Elia was pretty similar to the last few. We worked on spelling again, because every time I ask him what he wants to work on he says spelling, and because he seems the most engaged when we work on it. This time we reviewed some of the more difficult and problem words from the household items and animal vocabulary lists that we went over before. I also added in some sport words too, in the hopes that I could get some more natural conversation out of him that way. I learned that his favorite sport to play with his friends and to watch on TV is soccer, and that soccer is pronounced almost the same way in Swahili. I told Elia that I play lacrosse, explained what it is, then showed him a short video. Then I made him try to spell it of course. Even though it was something new he had never heard of before, he did alright because I've been teaching him to sound out unfamiliar words to guess their spelling. Then we practiced some vowels by looking at lists of minimal pairs (ex: wall, well, will, *woll, *wull), so that he could better see and hear the difference between each one.