March 10
The second meeting with Andy was again at Books-a-million, and when I arrived, Andy and his father had already selected several superhero books that Andy wanted to read. In the first session we had, I recognized that he does not consistently use simple past verb forms correctly to express what he or another person did in the past, so I decided to focus on reinforcement of this grammatical form whenever we came across it in the books. I used events in the batman books to encourage Andy to talk about himself and his own experiences and shared related past experiences with him to model the simple past structure. When he makes errors and I recast, he tends to correct himself and understand the model for simple past, though I know that it will take continued efforts to acquire the form for productive language.
Andy's reading fluency surprised me and we also worked on sounding-out larger words and corrected any pronunciation issues that got in the way of conveying meaning.
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