Yesterday I made a huge breakthrough with Astin. First of all, he was so much better in his home environment than at the Library. At the Library he was very distracted but at home he was much more focused, and I dare say excited, to learn. The thing that surprised me the most was when I walked in, knowing how much he loved the Star Wars series, I had prepared a worksheet for him to practice writing, vocab and reading. The exercise was integrated in that it had a picture of "Darth Vader" with various arrows pointing toward his body with blanks, then there was a word box. The words were simple but possibly ones Astin did not know, i.e: helmet, lightsaber, cape, chest, stomach, etc. So first he had to identify what the arrow was pointing at, find the corresponding word in the text box, and then write it in the blank. To my surprise, he did not want to do this to start off, instead he wanted to read a book that was completely unrelated to Star Wars. I was impressed to say the least at how focused and determined he was to read this book. I had to help him sound out the words, because Astin has a bad habit of guessing words when he gets stuck. All in all, this was the best tutoring session I have had with him thus far, and I am exited to plan next weeks lesson accordingly.
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