Last night we had our usual tutoring session. I gave my student a sheet with various sentences for her to correct. The sentences used "say" and "tell", and she had to figure out which was the correct way of saying them. Another worksheet was more open. She would have to find and correct the errors, if any. She did very well, but I helped her with a few when I saw that she had gotten stumped.
After that, I had her read a few stories, one of them about the winters in Irkutsk. It was interesting to read about people's everyday lives in such a harsh climate. My student learned some new words, and I saw the importance of the lessons for her. She can communicate very well in English, but she still needs to learn more vocabulary and phrases to completely understand certain things that she reads. In this lesson she answered about 60% of the questions correctly.
The second story was about a toddler that was bitten by a snake. Since this was a shorter story with simpler words, she answered most (if not all) questions correctly.
I plan to keep using the reading comprehension stories as part of our lessons, as I can see things in which my student can improve. I hope that I can also keep making the lessons interesting for her. After all, no one likes a boring teacher...
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