Siena Failla TS #1 Ye-won

I had my first tutoring session with Ye-won last Friday, May 12th! I spent the first part of our session getting to know her a little bit. For this session, I brought "Goodnight Moon", which was a book I remember reading when I was around Ye-won's age. While going through the book, I noticed that while there were some challenging sentences, the book was on the lower end of the "level-appropriate" category. Whenever she had an issue with one of the words or sentences, I would guide her through sounding out or identifying the word by asking her to analyze the illustrations. One thing I did like about this book is that the second half of the book repeats some of the same sentence structures from the beginning. This allowed us to reinforce some of the corrections and gave me insight into what corrections she actually understood and acquired, and which ones she was still struggling with. Once we finished reading, we turned out attention to some of the illustrations. I asked her to describe them to me and to identify some of the words as objects in the pictures. For next week, I plan on bringing a book that is a bit more challenging, but I do think that starting with "Goodnight Moon" provided me with a sound understanding of Ye-won's reading level.

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