Colleen TS 2- Maria

Today in our tutorial session Maria and I worked on vocabulary and we did a reading diagnostic.  For vocabulary we reviewed the words she had for homework from Monday. She had written them in her glossary book.  I reviewed the entries for errors and then she made corrections where I had indicated.  She has a pattern of using 'has' and 'have' incorrectly. She said she thinks this is because in Portuguese they serve the same function in speech, are interchangeable. I think this is what she meant. Either way, I'm going to find some exercises to help her understand the English usage of these words. For the reading diagnostic, I had selected books that I own that have documented reading levels (grade 1, 4, 9,12 and under graduate). Good news, she breezed through the first two, high fluency, quick reading, little hesitation. On the third one she kept up her reading speed, but some vocabulary (word recognition) was new for her.  I think this book and the grade 12 one were quit challenging, we stopped at the grade 12 book, 'The Call of the Wild'.  I told her about Jack London and how he is a famous American writer with fantastic stories about the USA.