Last Monday, August 19, I met Zhang Li again at the library. I had brought some grammar worksheets from online to work on that focused on diagramming sentences and the eight parts of speech (Interjection, Articles, etc.) flash cards. For the first activity, Zhang had to read a passage from the Wizard of Oz and circle what action is occurring in the sentence, by whom, and for what is describing the action. This gave her some further insight on how to properly structure sentences and be able to interpret the details in order to grasp the full meaning of the text. The following activity was kind of a quiz based review on the basic parts of English speech in which I held up a flash card for Zhang to explain and provide an example (i.e. "what is a conjunction?"). We had covered parts of speech during past grammar reviews, so I wanted to first gauge her memory on the subject. She was able to address prepositions and articles with ease, but she was less familiar with interjections and conjunctions, so we spent some time reviewing and making examples of the topics.
Over the weekend I didn't assign any new vocabulary words as I figured it would be fun for us to cover spelling by playing scrabble. During the last half of the session, Zhang almost beat me by several points as she was able to spell at least twenty words in fifteen minutes! She was very good at making four or five letter words, with a couple six letter words to boost her point score. She has also started to notice when she makes an error and will ask or try to correct it before double checking with me or a reference tool. We played one more round before going home, in which she won by 30 points to 12.
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