FSU TEFL 120

 June 8th, 2022 Ye-won (4 y/o) For this session with Ye-won, we continued working on the ‘ee’ sound. I also spent a few minutes looking at the words ‘I’ and ‘a’ and having her practice reading them. Although she knows the letters and words, when they appeared in sentences they seemed to trip her up. After a few practice sentences, Ye-won became much more comfortable reading those words; they were becoming automatic sight words for her.  For the speaking portion of the session, we went on another walk to Landis Green. She wanted to return to the fountain so we did. While we were talking there, a Golden Retriever ran up to the fountain and jumped right in. Ye-won and I got splashed a little bit, but it was a great conversation starter. The dog was very friendly and Ye-won and I spoke about pets for the remainder of the session.

 June 7th, 2022 Ye-won (4 y/o) For our reading activity I planned to focus on the ‘ee’ sound in English. First, I explained what sound ‘ee’ makes and why it is different to ‘e’. Then, we looked at different words where ‘ee’ is found. We practiced reading words like ‘green’ and ‘free’ which involve both consonant blends and the new vowel combination. Then, I had her read words I wrote on the board. I alternated between the double and single ‘e’ to ensure that Ye-won was actually paying attention and sounding the words out.  Then, for our speaking activity, I took Ye-won on a walk through campus to Landis Green. On the way there we talked about what she thought we would find at the ‘park’ and why. Then, I told her about what my favorite things to do there are. Once we arrived, she wanted to go to the Landis Fountain. We sat at the fountain and talked about the statues and the water. She had a blast and I think that going outside for tutoring provided the change of scenery Ye-won...

 June 6th, 2022 Ye-won (4 y/o) In this session with Ye-won, I wanted to challenge her a little bit. I found a story that was a little more difficult than the ones we had been reading previously. It involved some 4-letter words and reading those words involved blending consonant sounds. I wrote some different common consonant blends on the board and we practiced saying those out loud together. Then, I added to them and created words and we practiced those. For example, ‘dr’ and ‘drop’/’drip’, and ‘gl’ and ‘glad’.  After our reading activity, we played some pretend games like ‘doctor’ and we spoke about how her summer had been going and how excited she was about summer camp.

 June 8th, 2022 Yewon (21 y/o) For our last meeting of the session, I wanted to speak with Yewon about how she has grown in the past 7 weeks. I first asked her if she felt her English skills had improved. She agreed that they had. I told her that I agreed and then we discussed some of the specific ways I had seen her improve. A few major examples are her confidence, her preposition usage accuracy, and her vocabulary expansion.  We spoke about her plans for the break and I encouraged her to keep working hard the next session. I look forward to seeing how much Yewon grows by the end of the summer as I complete the internship at CIES.

 June 6th, 2022 Yewon (21 y/o) For this session, I wanted to sit with Yewon and do some extensive reading. She told me that she does a lot of intensive reading at CIES, but that she found that very difficult and tiring. While intensive reading is very important, I wanted Yewon to have an experience of reading a fun book that was level-appropriate because I love reading! She does enjoy reading in Korean, but reading English is very difficult for her.  To encourage her to actually read the book, I brought a book of my own and we sat next to each other as we read. She asked me any questions she had about unknown or confusing vocabulary, or about the book in general. I think that the book she chose, Frindle , was indeed level-appropriate because Yewon did not have many struggles reading it. She was shocked when I told her an hour had already passed because she normally struggles reading for periods longer than 10 minutes.

 June 5th, 2022 Ye-won (4 y/o) For this session, Ye-won and I continued what we had been working on for the past few sessions. We read another book that included many of the words we had been practicing for the past few days. In this book, the words did not necessarily rhyme with each other, but they were 3-letters and Ye-won could sound them out if she did not recognize them right away. We did this for 25 minutes. I am very impressed with the progress Ye-won is making. We also focused on the sight words we practiced the other day. I wrote some new sentences on the board for her to read that included the words we have been working on. For example, ‘The cat and the dog are fun.’ and ‘The hat is on the dog.”

 June 4th, 2022 Ye-won (4 y/o) In this session, as usual, Ye-won and I did a 25 minute reading activity and then a 25 minute speaking activity. For our reading activity, I used a book that had a lot of 3-letter rhyming words so that she could read with more confidence and ease. While we were reading I realized that Ye-won read the words she could sound out with relative ease, but she struggled with some sight words that were harder to sound out without knowledge of letter blends such as ‘the’. We practiced recognizing and reading the word ‘the’ as we read through the book.  Then, I wrote some sentences on the board and we read and talked about them. Ye-won has been improving her reading skills very quickly in the past few sessions.  For the next 25 minutes, we did a speaking activity and did some pretend play activities.