Castles

Gerardo and I met on Monday this week as it is Thanksgiving break on our usual meeting day this Wednesday. I read him a short fairy tale and had him correct his mistakes. He had me read each sentence several times and was confused by several words. When he corrected his mistakes, he had me explain what castles and dangling from meant, as in castles being the buildings in fairy tales, giving examples of what they can look like, and if something is dangling or hanging from something, as I explained to him. He said he had more mistakes this time than in past dictations because of some of the wording. The story had longer sentences and I know he needs to work on listening and knowing when one sentence ends and another begins, so I think he learned a lot in this lesson and with this story. Afterward, we did a few word scrambles about sports and some crosswords that gave the verb and you had to fill in the past or present tense, such as to sleep, he...sleeps. The time past quickly because of the story taking a while to read and then me explaining some of his mistakes. Overall, I think he does a good job at seeing his mistakes and remembering them, and I have seen an improvement in how fast he writes after I read to him, stumbling on a few words here and there. When the time was up, I told him next week would be our last meeting and to bring something fun for me to read to him and other things that he wanted to work on during our last session. He said he couldn't believe it was almost December and I said this semester had gone really fast. We wished each other a Happy Thanksgiving and headed in our different directions.