TS #1

 I had my first session with Julio on 7/7/25. We met in the FSU student union. I started by asking him how his day was before explaining my goals for our first session. I asked him some questions about his relationship to English outside of school, what his goals were (both academic and non-academic), how he learns best, and what he wanted to get out of our sessions. Julio wants to practice speaking and pronunciation. He learns best through listening and repetition. He introduced me to a list of psalms and sayings he uses daily in Mass, and we ran through two sections. I had him first read chunks of the passage out loud, and we identified some sticking points. I learned that breaking the words into parts for him was very helpful. He struggles a lot with "th" sounds and "ed" or "d" sounds as well as connecting other parts of the word to those sounds. With isolation practice, he became a lot more confident with words such as "through," "thoughts," "grant," and "almighty." Together, we marked up his paper to help prompt his memory when he's speaking. I am excited to work with him! 

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