Tutoring Report Slide Ten

In order to promote fluency, games were incorporated into the sessions with Jensen and Cannon. This strategy provided repeated exposure to the skills being learned and made learning feel like playing. For example, a game was played where they had to spin a spinner and read a sentence based on where it landed. This helped the students learn in a more natural way and gave them more exposure to the skills. After learning that both Jensen and Cannon loved sports, I knew I had to incorporate games into our sessions, and using this strategy, it helped promote fluency. It provided repeated exposure to the skills that we were learning. It made them feel like they were playing instead of learning, which served as a motivation to drive them to continue to learn. For example, we played a game where they had to spin the spinner and it landed on one of the four things shown here, what did they do, where did this happen, what was this about? Once they spun it and it landed on one, they had to read the sentence that's shown. For example, they read, every Tuesday, Misty rides her horse at the ranch, and say they landed on, who was this about? They would take that sentence, find who is in the sentence, and that was the answer, and they would check it off. We would do this a few times until one of the students had all four in one sentence checked off. This was really good at helping the students learn in a more natural way as they're used to the games, and this just gave them a lot more exposure to the skills.