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My tutorial process will be spent with a 3rd grade student attending Dunleith Elementary School, which is apart of the Marietta City School district. Dunleith’s demographics display majority of the student body being African-American students, and Hispanic being the second largest portion of the students. This school is located in a high poverty level area, resulting in more than half of the student body being eligible for free or reduced lunches. During this process I will be using a pseudonym of Billy to conceal my tutee’s identity. My tutee is a ten-year-old Hispanic male. Billy was retained in Kindergarten at Dunleith, which makes him the oldest student in my third grade classroom. Billy is a Hispanic student, however he is fluent in English …show more content…
This will play a major role in creating the tutorial process. I began by doing the bag of favorites one-on-one with my student and then inviting him to bring in five of his favorite objects or something that represents his interest. This was a great way to break the ice and allow him to gain trust and become comfortable with me. I want this process to be comfortable and flexible for the both of us, therefore learning his interest now and taking this time at the beginning of the tutorial process should lead to great accomplishments throughout the rest of our process According to an article that focuses on the importance of student interest McCarthy (2014) states, “Factoring for student interests works well with instructional planning based on readiness and learning profiles. Readiness combined with interest leads to students doing work at a respectable complexity level with the familiarity of a topic that they relate to.” Through the Garfield and interest surveys I was able to gain information on the attitude my student has towards reading and writing. The surveys revealed to me the student enjoys reading books that were about sports, video games, or adventures. He did make it clear that he does not enjoy reading books while at home, but doesn’t mind if he is at school. Through the writing survey it reveal an average attitude of not loving to write, but

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