Tutoring and what not.

I already am a tutor, I tutor in reading comprehension and I do it on the weekends. I tutor a handful of elementary school students and one middle school student. I used to help my nephews and nieces with their homework (still do, just with big projects and regents review) and found that I was enjoying myself and that kind of kick-started this whole thing. However, I'm not entirely sure I want to teach...but putting that aside, no student is the same which means that every session is different, routines are picked up but every session differs. A typical session for me will start off with a greeting and asking them about their week, did anything interesting happen (doesn't matter if it had anything to do with school or not), did they learn anything interesting? Once that is done, I ask them if there is anything in specific that they need help in (lately it's been more History than anything), and we work on that. We take turns reading out loud and I only tend to correct them with pronunciation if they ask for help, I tend to encourage them to sound words out. I encourage annotating and "chunking" as their teachers like to call it while reading. I also like to ask them to circle words they aren't familiar with (we define them together) and to underline phrases that they liked. Toward the beginning of February we spend an hour on workbooks, preparing them for the state exams. I don't do this often because they already have a lot of work but if there is something in particular that was read or spoken about during that day's session, I ask them to research it and to write about it. They're cute little overachievers so I usually end up with essays, but it's always fun to read. It's actually a lot more fun than I'm making it sound, I just reread this paragraph and it sounds hella boring. Sorry. This probably isn't even what you wanted us to blog about...