Colleen TS 1 Maria

Today Maria and I meet for our first tutorial session.  As we are both CP and tutorial partners, we have decided to run our conversation sessions and tutorial sessions consecutively with a half hour break in between. For our tutorial session today I had planned a vocabulary activity.  I call the activity 'Maria's Glossary'. I found an address book for her at the book store.  It has alphabetized pages that she will fill with new words that she learns each day. These are glossary instructions: 1) write the word on the first line of the correct alphabetical page, 2) identify the word's grammatical function,write this on the second line, 3) write the definition of the words on the third line, 4) write a sentence using the word on the fourth line. She wrote 10 words in her glossary during our tutorial session, words that she had learnt during our CP session, (high validity). As she was doing this I was able to determine that her hand writing and spelling is very good, she did not make any errors in her sentence structure either. I gave her 10 words for homework, to be completed by our session tomorrow. For the most part these words came from the dictionary definitions of the words that she wrote in her glossary today.