Casey TS #9

On 2/9/2020 Indira and I met up and worked on reading fluency and pronunciation as well as comprehension of the material that was read. I asked Indira to bring a reading material of her choice and she chose to bring a English textbook with short excerpts about American pop culture and history which was a great choice for this exercise. Indira read an excerpt about the "fads" and "trends" in American fashion throughout the decades. Indira reads at a relatively normal speed but with some pronunciation accuracy issues. Every time Indira would mispronounce a word I would write the mistakes down to go over later. One of the main words of the article was fad which Indira repeatedly pronounced as fat instead. The "d" sound was being turned into a "t" sound. After correcting the reading mistakes, Indira and I went over the comprehension questions at the end of the article to make sure she understood what she was reading. After the reading exercise I presented a list of idioms for Indira and I to look over. I spent some time explaining the idioms or slang terms and having Indira come up with example sentences to make sure she understood the words in the correct context.