CO #3 listening

        For this observation, I shadowed Dr. Rios's group one reading class. He started off the class by introducing the idea of a short vowel sound vs a long vowel sound. From what I could tell, they went over the rules last class, so this class was a bit of a review. After Dr. Rios went over the rules again, he wrote a few words on the board and had each student mark the vowels in the words as either short or long. After they were finished he correct their mistakes and they had a discussion about it. He repeated this activity once more, and then did the same thing on the projector with even more words. Next, he transitioned to some listening comprehension work. He put some high frequency one syllable words on the board, then spoke a word out loud and had the students circle which word he said. The students struggled with this a bit, so it was a very good exercise in my opinion. Since class was almost over at this point, Dr. Rios briefly introduces minimal pairs, and explained that the exercise they just did was an introduction to minimal pairs. 

    It's always fun to watch Dr. Rios's classes! He is such a natural teacher and knows how to crack jokes at the right moment. It was also very interesting to see the students struggle with such a simple reading/ listening activity when they are such good writers.