Tyler Lee TS#6 Child

April 6

Andy and I continued to work on using simple past tense and continued using grammar games to reduce the affective filter and increase motivation ( I remembered to bring some chocolates too). Two of the grammar games that we played involved story telling. The goal of the activity was to get Andy using his imagination while creating a short paragraph telling a story and to effectively use the simple past tense to do so. I introduced the past progressive form, though only expected Andy to be able to produce past tense phrases and sentences. We did this activity collaboratively and I provided scaffolding and suggestions as to how to make the sentences more descriptive and how to carry the story forward. Andy chose to write about monsters chasing us through a forest. The next game we played was a tic-tac-toe hybrid where each person takes turns and tells a truth or a lie using past-tense verbs; when the other person guesses whether the sentence was true or false, they get to take their turn in the tic-tac-toe match. Andy seems to enjoy these lessons and I feel that I am finally beginning to understand what it takes to teach younger students.