Elizabeth Hilliard
November 28, 2012
Tutoring Week #6
This Week’s Goal: Continue working on affixes. Record newly learned affix words.
Create a Christmas or Holiday story which includes words with affixes.
Plan: We will complete three affix activities. Then we will read a Christmas story of
Jesse’s choosing and we will write our own Christmas story and use as many affix
words as possible.
Action:
 (What we will do together)
o My tutee, his mother, and I will review Jesse’s homework, starting by
going over the words that Jesse encountered in his weekly reading
and did not know or understand. We will write the word and the
definition in his tutoring journal and on separate flash cards to add to
his word bag.
o I will introduce the Affix Match activity to Jesse and his mother.

(What my tutee will do alone)
o Affix Match: Jesse will match an affix card to a card that has its
meaning. There are 5 sets. Jesse will play this game like memory.

(What I must do as a result of my tutee’s action/inaction)
o When he is finished, we will go over all of the affixes one more time.

(What we will do together)
o Affix Action Game: My tutee, his mother, and I will begin by reading
the directions and setting up the game. In this game there are
sentence cards and a game board with affix spaces. I will read the
sentence to Jesse and he will have to fill in the blank. Jesse will have to
say the correct word and affix, if he is correct he will get to move up a
space. (Ex. The paint came off the house, so she had to ___ it. (repaint)

(What I must do as a result of my tutee’s action/inaction)
o I will keep all cards that Jesse does not answer correctly. We will go
over these again to see if he can think of the answer a second time or
if he really needs more explicit instruction regarding a certain affix or
vocabulary term.

(What we will do together)
o Build A Word: Jesse, his mother, and I will move on to our third and
final game. In this game there is a base word and blanks on either side
of the word, where a prefix and suffix can be added. Using affix cards
we will build new words, by adding them to the root words. I will help
Jesse explore multiple combinations and possibilities with these
affixes.

(What my tutee will do alone)
o Build A Word: Jess will record at least five of the new words in his
Tutoring Journal Notebook on a new page.

(What we will do together)
o Finally we will read a Christmas book together. I will bring some
options for Jesse, but we can choose one from the library if he prefers.
Jesse will read aloud the story to his mother and me. While reading,
Jesse and I will point out words with affixes, which connect to our
previous activities.
o Afterwards, we will end our tutoring session by writing a Christmas or
Holiday story (I know that he celebrates this holiday). Jesse will create
and compose the story. I will help Jesse create this story and add affix
words into it. Jesse will then read his story or memory to his mother.
Jesse can translate it in Spanish for her.
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Follow Up
o Barnes and Noble Book Buy is next week. I will remind Jesse to start
thinking about books that he would like to purchase next week!