Today, I tutored Zoe at her home again. She was very excited because today her class received their yearbooks. She read aloud the biographies for her principal, and showed me her teacher, classmates, little sister, and friends. Then we played BrainQuest for 5 or 10 minutes, and Zoe practiced finding low frequency vocabulary words in pictures. Afterward, I wanted to give Zoe a creative activity to cushion last session's ("boring") reading lesson. She would practice writing a dialogue and we would both act it out together.
I think Zoe has gotten accustomed to our routine for tutoring, which includes a journal writing exercise, new vocabulary words, an active lesson, and finally a "wrap-up". I asked her to answer a short journal writing prompt: "What is your favorite movie? Why?". Her favorite movie is the new Cinderella because it is magical. Our vocabulary word for the day was "script". I told her that she would be writing one, and modeled the exercise for her. Using Cinderella and Fairy Godmother, Zoe wrote a short dialogue about the two finding Fairy's wand in the middle of a desert. Once again, I keep being pleasantly surprised by Zoe's burgeoning creativity.
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