McKenzie TS #18

 Tutoring Session #18

September 30, 2025

4pm-5pm on Facetime

  Group 4 (advanced student) 

    This tutoring session was very online activity based. She has mentioned she struggles with grammar especially the words with slightly different meanings so I thought this could help her. We started with one that had her fill in the blanks and she was given a word bank. She did very good on this. Next we did one that had a drop down menu with a list of words in different tenses for the blank. She had the most trouble with the word 'have'. I did a pretty good job at explaining it giving her example sentences, real life situations, and as much elaboration as she needed. Next we did an activity where I gave her some sentences with subtle grammar mistakes and asked her to fix what's wrong. She did well at this but I found she knew them more by sounding off rather than actual grammar rules. Overall this session was very good and I think I was able to teach her a lot and help her with her struggles. I need to get better at technical explanations myself.

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