Samar TS #17

Date: 8/21/25

Location: Zoom

Topic/Skill:  Redundancy/wordiness

Feedback: Throughout our sessions, I noticed Hyobin has a very broad vocabulary. However, sometimes her sentences can be wordy or redundant. I also noticed she uses run-on sentences. I figured a good lesson would be on redundancy. I taught her the definition of redundancy and showed her some examples of it in essays. We talked about why redundancy might be important to look out for in our writing. To ensure her understanding, I gave her some wordy or redundant sentences to fix (make concise, remove unnecessary words, etc.). I gave feedback on her answers. At the end, we did a kahoot! because she mentioned we hadn’t done one in a while. Whenever she got a question wrong, I’d pause the kahoot! and give her feedback. 

Lessons learned: It’s always important to have a “why”. Students won’t want to learn something if they don’t see a value behind it. Just “redundancy” as a topic is boring, but opening the floor to a discussion about why it might be valuable to learn about it can really engage a student. 

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