TS #2 Ye-won

Yesterday I had my second tutoring session with Ye-won. For this session, we read "Fancy Nancy it's Backward Day!". After our first session, I became more familiar with Ye-won's reading level, and I believe that this book was more level appropriate for her than the one we read during our first session. Before beginning the book, I asked Ye-won to guess what "Backward Day" was based on the illustrations on the front cover. She was able to get a good understanding of what the book was going to be about before we began reading. The book was a bit more challenging than "Goodnight Moon" and I was able to incorporate comprehension and vocab questions as we read. For example, I would pause to ask Ye-won to identify certain objects in the illustrations or to explain the meaning of some of the vocabulary words. I enjoyed being able to talk through some of the vocabulary and finding fun ways to help Ye-won remember the meaning of some of the words. For example, we decided that "delectable" meant "super duper yummy". In terms of her reading fluency and pronunciation, she has a bit of a hard time with diphthongs, especially words with -ea- sounds. As we were reading, I noticed that she became much more comfortable with words that include the vowel combination -ea-. I did notice that Ye-won does struggle a bit with words ending in -y or -ing. As a result, I may try to find a book that can offer a lot of practice with words following these patterns. 

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