Toylene TS#6


Of the 190 sight-words my tutee should know by the end of the 1st grade, he has approximately two-thirds for them memorized. This session was a lively partner read about a pig and an elephant.  I read the elephant's script and my tutee chose the piggy's script.  Apparently, the piggy's script was more exciting, and the piggy was definitely the main character. The elephant was piggy's dependable side-kick.  It turns out, piggy was on this quest to tell all his friends thank you for various reasons.  By the time he gets to the last friend he plans to thank, elephant is very sad because piggy hasn't thanked him yet.  Long story short, piggy was saving his best friend, elephant, to thank last.  To whined down the session, I shared some animal facts about the porcupine, the snail, the starfish and the bunny.  The porcupine's ability to shoot its quills for protection, the snail's ability to use the many teeth in its tongues to grind food or the starfish's ability to regenerate another arm, didn't impress him at all. However, the bunny's ability to learn how to open its cage door, well, that was "amazing" to him.