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"We worked on reading and had a brief discussion of study skills. We specifically focused on using context to sound out words and the student's tendency to skip over small words. "

"In yesterday's lesson I gave the student a handout covering "7 Steps of a Good Reader." To begin the session, she read each step to me aloud, and we discussed what it meant and gave examples of it. We identified which steps happened before reading, during reading, and after reading. Then we began to read the student's chapter book, focusing on the steps from the sheet: making connections to real life and prior knowledge, asking questions and making inferences, monitoring understanding, summarizing the text, and more. The student did a really good job applying these skills to her text. It's important that she continue to practice them so they become more innate and habitual as that will strengthen her reading all around. She even very astutely observed that some of the steps for during reading can also be done after and vice versa. "

"Today we began by reviewing the student's homework, as usual-- she is getting quicker and quicker at her reading assignments, and I'm noticing she's really retaining a lot of detail after the first read. Her written answers to comprehension and extension questions are getting more involved, and she's developing them in more detail without much prompting. Overall, her writing is getting more advanced-- she's using more complex syntax and is expanding upon her ideas more than ever before. Moving forward, I'd like to focus some attention on the mechanics of grammar-- particularly tenses, and making sure she has tense- agreement in her longer written passages."