Elle TS #9-10

Date/Time: April 10, 4:00-6:00 Location: Sweet Shop Cafe Feedback provided to tutee: My tutee asked to build on the vowel sounds work by covering the different ways the i sound gets spelled in English. We went through five patterns which were ee, ea, eau, ie, ey and worked through the tricky ea exceptions like bread and sweat that break the rule. I reiterated word stress back into the practice so she could keep that skill sharp, and we closed by tying the lesson back to the ough patterns and vowel pairs from previous sessions. Lesson(s) about tutoring and/or the tutee you learned: I learned that when a tutee starts choosing her own topics, the lessons land much harder because she has a personal stake in the material. Connecting the new content back to her previous sessions also gave her a clear sense of how much she had already built up and I was able to watch her recognize her own real progress.

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