Tutoring Session #5 (Child): Parts of Speech Practice with PJ
Wednesday 03/29/17 7:30
For our fourth session, we changed things up a bit. PJ got a bad score on an English quiz/exam at school that dealt with parts of speech so Professor Kim asked if I could go over this with him. I printed some worksheets that I downloaded from Englishisforeveryone.org and brought them with me to the tutoring session. I brought one worksheet for 7 of the 8 parts of speech, leaving out interjections (and articles) because I thought there were easy enough to explain. I asked PJ if he could tell me what an article was and he had no idea. Even after explaining he still seemed a little foggy on the concept though I think he eventually got the hang of it.
We completed the worksheets on adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, and nouns. The former two he had quite a bit of trouble with, the latter two he understood fairly well and breezed right through. At the top of each sheet the part of speech is explained followed by examples contextualized in a sentence. The exercise itself consists of underlining the particular part of speech in a series of sample questions. I left the verbs worksheet with PJ as homework. He said that found verbs and nouns the easiest of them so I think he will get through them. Next week we will review his homework, work on pronouns and conjunctions, and try a new exercise on adjectives and adverbs so that he can get more practice with those.
Wednesday 03/29/17 7:30
For our fourth session, we changed things up a bit. PJ got a bad score on an English quiz/exam at school that dealt with parts of speech so Professor Kim asked if I could go over this with him. I printed some worksheets that I downloaded from Englishisforeveryone.org and brought them with me to the tutoring session. I brought one worksheet for 7 of the 8 parts of speech, leaving out interjections (and articles) because I thought there were easy enough to explain. I asked PJ if he could tell me what an article was and he had no idea. Even after explaining he still seemed a little foggy on the concept though I think he eventually got the hang of it.
We completed the worksheets on adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, and nouns. The former two he had quite a bit of trouble with, the latter two he understood fairly well and breezed right through. At the top of each sheet the part of speech is explained followed by examples contextualized in a sentence. The exercise itself consists of underlining the particular part of speech in a series of sample questions. I left the verbs worksheet with PJ as homework. He said that found verbs and nouns the easiest of them so I think he will get through them. Next week we will review his homework, work on pronouns and conjunctions, and try a new exercise on adjectives and adverbs so that he can get more practice with those.
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