Charlene TS #2 Child

Met with Nayun and her father at the North East branch of the Leon County Library. There had been some confusion about where to meet, and Nayun's father initially went to the library downtown. He opted to come back to the North East branch of the library, which was near his home, rather than have this tutor meet him downtown with Nayun.

Upon their arrival, Nayun appeared to me to be a little tired, and it did not say anything initially. Her father waited in the library while she and I went into one of the tutoring rooms that were available. After some initial discussion about today's lesson, and giving Nayun a couple of choices about what to do first, she chose to listen to a story on the computer. The story was The Giving Tree.

After she finished listening to the story, I asked her if she could tell me something about the story. I in just looked at me and did not respond to any invitation to talk. Finally, I decided it was time to move on and pulled out several books. I had a book about a little girl and a dragon and asked if she would read it to me. It was on about a mid to end of first grade level. Nayun read the book to me perfectly. There were some words she did not know but she was able to sound these out. I thought this was pretty remarkable since she is in kindergarten. I asked her if she liked the story, and she said that she did. We went back through the pages and I asked her various questions about the little girl and the dragon. I asked her where they weren't what they were doing during different periods during the story. She was able to answer all the questions.

I then pulled out the flashcards that we had used at her initial assessment and went through all of these again with her. She knew all of the flashcards. I made sure to cover the pictures so she couldn't see what the words were. I asked her several questions from the question flashcards. She answered all but one of these correctly.

I praised Nayun greatly for her ability to read. She said that she liked reading and that she make good grades in school on reading. I then pulled another book from the fact I had brought to begin it. However, Nayun had begun to rub her eyes and Yon quite a bit. She began reading the book but she was clearly tired at this point. Since a considerable amount of time had elapsed, and she had done well on every task after initially failing to talk, I told her that we were done for the day. I handed her the book we had read so she could take it home and read it again to her parents.

I spoke with Nayun's father and told him she had done well and appeared to be reading above her grade level. I asked him if she was having any difficulties in school. He said that he was not really aware of any. I suggested we might want to enrich her knowledge by setting up a visit to a local museum. I suggested a couple of museums (The Tallahassee Museum and the Museum of Florida History). He said that he would talk this over with his wife and they would get back with me about the lesson next week.