Hey everyone! I watched Sienna’s primary school English session.

Sienna and her student got along really well. Her student felt very comfortable with her, which was great to see as it made Sienna’s student more comfortable, when she asked questions.

Sienna started the session checking her students homework from last week. They then did some work on preparing her student for her upcoming spelling test. They went through a range of sight words.

They then spent the rest of the tutorial, working on spelling words. Sienna started helping her student prepare for her upcoming spelling test. She would say sight words from her students school homework. She would then pronunciate it out and then use it in a sentence, so her student could understand the context of the word and could then use her intending skills to try and work out the meaning of the word. She then got her student to write a sentence using the spelling word to help her student to practice spelling the word and to understand how to form a sentence using the word.

Sienna gave her student the mini whiteboard to write her spelling words on and to write her sentence on. The student also started to visually draw what was happening in each sentence as this helps her to better understand the new spelling words and is a great prompt as she is a visual learner.

When Sienna’s student got distracted, Sienna did a good job, getting her student to focus and get back on track.

They then edited the spelling word, and sounded each word out. They also corrected the punctuation and grammar of each sentence.

Overall, Sienna did a great job helping her student. It was a great session and such a pleasure to observe. Keep it up!

Ashley Cohen