Caleb Dros TS #15


Today I met with Zaymed about composition. Composition is something he seems to be struggling in, particularly the development of ideas. My solution to this was to encourage him to practice and to do pre-writing exercises. Last session I ran him through the elements of an essay and how the connect to one another. This session was all about letting Zaymed come up with his own ideas and connections. We went to one of his ESL writing composition websites where his writing class gets prompts to practice from.

One of his old compositions had the comment “did you brainstorm?” on the top of it. It turns out, once I encouraged Zaymed to be as concise and specific about his stance, topic sentence and reasons, he had a very good outline for an essay. I tried to pick up where his composition professor left off. I guided him by asking him fundamental questions and asking him to come up with his reasons, supporting details and thesis statement that combined all of these. His issue seems to be coming up with ideas. I watched as he finished an outline and explained how they connect to one another.

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