Alexander Miguel, TS# 6

On Monday I continued SAT prep with Khushi. We read through three articles: one history, one social sciences and one natural sciences and completed the corresponding reading comprehension questions. Khushi had trouble with some of the words in the questions, like "contextualize". Once I defined some of these, she was able to accurately answer the questions for all three passages. On each practice set, Khushi received a 10/11. The three that were missed, I must admit, were second-guessing on my part. I gave Khushi some reading strategies last session, which included reading only the first and last paragraphs as well as the first and last sentences of each of the body paragraphs. This session, when reading through the whole passage, I encouraged Khushi to summarize in her own words each paragraph, especially for questions which asked about general overviews or how the authors connects ideas together. Though difficult, when I helped her to summarize, we were able to answer questions which she may otherwise have missed. 

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