Zola 9-17 Tutoring

     Earlier this morning I met with Je Ah over WhatsApp video call. I began by resuming what we had been working on earlier this week, the intensive reading on Ellis Island. I ended up cutting that to the first couple paragraphs, because it proved to be fairly challenging, but I think it was still good practice.

    Following that, I continued with the main thing today: adverbs. I went with this because I knew that Bella had done adjectives with her already, and we talked about verbs lots when conjugating into different tenses, so combining the two and going with adverbs seemed like the next step. 

    I began by introducing some high-frequency adverbs, along with an example sentence for each. Then, I proceeded with some fill-in-the-blank questions to evaluate her ability to use adverbs properly in the context of a sentence. She did well at this, so then I moved on to the main activity: mad libs! I mad some sentences with certain parts of speech redacted, which had the added benefit of seeing how well she could construct sentences with them. I found that she knows verbs very well, and she had just been doing adverbs, so those were fresh in her memory.

    My next step in working with Je Ah is to refresh her memory of adjectives. I did play a game with her that I had heard about from Bella, where I list adjectives describing an object that she has to guess. She enjoyed this, and wanted to have a turn describing as well, but had trouble recalling adjectives to use. So I am excited that she will be motivated to review adjectives next week in order to be able to play the game.