My Tutoring Reflection

Introduction The time I spent with my student during our tutoring sessions gave me a first-hand experience of how it is like on a student to teacher level. I learned a lot from my student, Kade, as I hope he also learned from me. During this time, I was able to observe his strengths and his weakness. I had to be flexible to cater my lesson plan to my student, so he could build upon what he learned and advance through more challenging activities. Through careful assessment, I could then evaluate my student and make a lesson plan that would build on his skills. These assessments include student reading inventory, running records, and spelling inventory. Through my observations I could identify my student’s reading and writing skills and apply them to their activities.
Overview of Tutoring Experience Through the tutoring sessions with my student, we focused on different sections in the lesson plan. We did activities that included; Poetry, Read-alouds, Language experiences/Writing, and Word work. We …show more content…
The sheet explained how Kade likes to read, but he easily gets frustrated with words he doesn’t know. His interests include action, mystery, and adventure. Therefore, ‘Dinosaurs Before Dark’ was a perfect book for Kade to read. Kade’s mother was mostly concerned about Kade not having to struggle words and enjoy reading. With Kade’s reading I noticed that he did indeed struggle with certain words. This led me to focus the activities around words that he struggled with in the book (including words ending in ‘ile’ and ‘augh’). I also had Kade do his best with pronouncing unfamiliar words and breaking them down. For example, ‘Pteranodon’ was a word Kade struggled with. I had to tell him the ‘P’ was silent and we would repeat the word as we clapped it out. This is also where syllable word work came in, which Kade excelled at in later