Sarah- TP7

I met with Shivani on Monday, and the first thing we did was go over the homework sheets I gave her last time. She got every question right, and although I don't think they were terribly hard, I had to wonder if her husband helped her, because I've told her to get his help in the past. I would have liked to see how her comprehension was going though, and wish I had clarified before we left last time. I gave her one more level one practice sheet to do, and this helped a little, watching her try to answer them. After she completed this (only had trouble on one question) We moved on to a harder one. I explained that because the sentences were much longer now, we had to work hard to understand what we are reading, because going back and finding where they are will be harder now. There were definitely a few new vocabulary words to learn but she did surprisingly well, and I was pleased.

Here's where I got the worksheets: www.englishforeveryone.org

The website has a lot of great resources on it, and I've just discovered a bunch more I want to try. It also separates the worksheets by level so you don't have to tailor it too much.

Next, I pulled out a resource that Karen, the library literacy program lady had clued me into: a bunch of small practice roadsigns! Some were visual like the paramedic red and white cross, and some were written like hospital and police, etc. She knew a few but not all of them. We went through and learned what each meant. Sometimes I had to draw out intersections, and I ended up explaining cultural things like jay walking, and how it's illegal but realistically, we do it all the time. I had her make a list of the vocab she kept having trouble with like intersection and pedestrian. I don't need her to be able to produce these words, but she definitely has to recognize them. I told her that these words will come up a lot in her driver's ed book (practically her bible), and her test when she gets ready to take it. We went through the signs that she didn't know again, and agreed to quiz her after the break.

TBC...