Melannie TS #5

PACE Summer Camp Tutee

On Tuesday, I had gone to the summer camp where I volunteer to tutor English to migrant children. I mostly help with the older kids instead of the younger kids. The activity we had done with the older kids was reading, writing a response, and speech exercise. All of the students had to read a short story out loud, every student was given a turn to read a paragraph. We had helped anyone that was struggling on the pronunciation of the words. After the reading activity was over, the class was open to discussion. Ms. Soto and I had asked the students questions about the reading. We used a clear and not too of a slow voice when asking them questions. All of the students were to respond back in a whole sentence and not a "yes" or "no" answer. When the open class discussion was over, the students had an in-class worksheet about the reading that they had to fill out. This worksheet was a scaffolding type. It would start off easy and with lots of help, but as they had gotten far into the worksheet it would get harder. Hard enough as they were left with having to write down their own opinion in a two-paragraph respond about the reading. Ms. Soto and I had our own group of students since there are so many of them, and we would walk around to watch what the students were writing. Checking their grammar, but not as much as making sure they are really trying to work on their responses. Keeping them from always saying "I liked her." or any short response sentences. 

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