TP #6 Madison

Friday I had a tutoring session with Erico. At the beginning of our session I read a few of his compositions that had already been graded. I helped explain to him the mistakes he made in is writing and why he got marked off for certain things. Then I looked at his homework and helped him with the simple past. He needed help remembering what some words were in the past tense; for example, to see- saw. After that I made an activity for him to complete. It consisted of ten questions, all of which were very similar verbs I had explained to him the week before in one of our previous tutoring sessions. I also combined the past and present tenses in this activity. I gave him a word bank to offer  him choices for the fill in the blank questions and I included the past tense of every present tense verb that was in the word bank. After he finished, I made him another activity using only the verbs he had gotten wrong. These verbs were very similar- such as made and did. However, this activity was very difficult for him so we ended up doing it together and I explained why he should choose certain verbs for the particular questions. When designing the questions I didn't realize that some of the verbs were interchangeable and multiple verbs could work for the same question, making the activity even harder for him than I anticipated.