Annabella TS #11

 Date: 07/28/2021

Time: 10-11 AM

Location: Zoom

Topic/Skill: Idioms/Writing/Listening

Feedback provided: Last session, one of the videos I played for Dave mentioned a couple idioms and metaphors that were unfamiliar to him. So, this week we worked on identifying idioms and figuring out the meaning of them using context clues. First, I showed him a BrainPOP video on idioms and paused it when they mentioned an idiom. Using context clues, Dave would decipher the literal and figurative definition of the idiom. After this, I read a short passage aloud and would stop once I mentioned a different idiom. Again, using context clues from the story, Dave figured out both the literal and the figurative meaning. With some linguistic support we were able to figure out each idiom. At the end of the lesson I wrote sentences with blank spaces where an idiom would be and asked Dave to chose an idiom from the story to fill in the space. Even though he was relatively accurate at figuring out the figurative meaning, applying it to the sentence was a harder task and Dave struggled a lot. 

Lesson learned: I learned that I need to incorporate more language in use in these types of questions. It was great when Dave was figuring out the meaning of an idiom in the story but he needed more exposure and needed to see another example of how idioms are used.