Visit #3

Eliza Griffin

Monday, January 23,2012

Assessment 

Today on my visit to the Boys and Girls club we played a long, tiring, game of dodge ball. The team I was on sadly ended up losing, but I did not mind. When it came time for power hour, I helped, Samantha, the same girl I worked with two weeks ago. She worked on reading out loud to me again. When we were finished reading, I helped a 9-year-old girl named Tadeka. Tadeka was working on spelling, which is a section in school that I still struggle with. All the words were scrambled up, and Tadeka had to unscramble them. I taught her a trick. By counting how many letters were each word, she could then decode the word faster. After, finishing that part of her homework, we began another assignment which was only due on Wednesday. She was a little hesitant about doing this because all her friends were playing games, but she ended up deciding to get a jump-start. I find that working ahead helps me, so I was trying to teach her a good study strategy. When Tadeka was finished with her homework, she asked me if she could read to me. I was so excited and honored that she asked me because she is a shy and quiet girl. We ended up reading, the book Ramona and Her Mother by Beverly Cleary, for about a half an hour. Tadeka had some trouble with reading so I taught her the strategy that Mrs. F taught me, which was to take a piece of paper, line it up under the sentence you are trying to read, and then move it down so that you can only read one line at a time. All these techniques that I have been taught, and today shared with Tadeka,  have not only helped me with my reading, but also have helped another young reader. This made me feel like to quote Mr. Salsich, “ A serious English scholar.”