Nicole Tutoring 13

Veronika told me about her past two weeks and the different adventures she had. I'm glad she had some fun. This means she has some work to catch up on.  Before we started that though I wanted to review vowels.  So I used the wall and we went through all of the vowels in the English language.  I wrote out a, e, i. o, u and pointed to each letter and asked her which letter it was.  We then went through them together.  I had been looking for worksheets but realized that style won't work as learning the letters required listening and speaking, not just seeing them.  After we went through the letters Veronika started writing one of her assignments.  She is in a Greek Debates class and had some questions to answer since she missed some classes.  While spelling words for her again she would sometimes make a mistake and I stopped her, told her it was incorrect and waited for her to find the appropriate vowel herself.  She read the questions aloud to me but often times I had to look at the question myself because I had no idea what word she was attempting to say.  She struggled with v's pronouncing them as if they were w's.  Before I had just been saying the word the proper way and moving on.  After seeing a consistent struggle in this area I began approaching it differently.  I would pronounce the word correctly, annunciat the individual letter and provide other words with the same letter. I also asked her to practice saying the letter and then revisiting the word.  Veronika is eager to learn so she willingly participated in the exercises.