After a bit of a hiatus, I met up
with Ivy and Ariel at Atomic coffee once again. This time they wanted to go
over a couple papers they had been working on. They just received critiques
from their teachers and wished to discuss why certain items were marked wrong,
and how they could fix them.
The first assignment we went
over was Ivy’s paper. Since Ariel’s English is slightly more advanced, I had
her help explain the reasons for Ivy’s mistakes when Ivy had difficulty figuring
them out. By teaching Ivy, Ariel was able to review her English grammar by
thinking of various ways to explain grammatical concepts. She showed Ivy how
certain context clues would help her figure out which articles to use, when to
make a word plural, and when an item should be general or specific.
I of course guided the
discussion and asked comprehension questions. When Ariel had a hard time
explaining a particular portion of the writing, I used some scaffolding to let
them decipher the answer. The technique seemed to work well. Both Ivy and Ariel
had a number of “Aha!” moments.
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