"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” -Plutarch
Today's meeting started out with much fire. M.C. was eager to start reading and show me that he has been working in the time we were apart from the literacy center. He chose two books from literacy center library, one on baseball and the other the infamous Goosebumps series. While conducting the shared reading method, he would stop and make inferences on what was to come. He was adding his personal prediction as to how the baseball game in the text was to play out. Once we moved to the R.L. Stein's Goosebumps, he appeared to be tired. I conducted the guided reading and he was reading well in the beginning. As time elapsed he grew more tired and appeared to lose his fire. I had him stand up and read to me as if he was the teacher. Although this helped for sometime he gradually mispronounced words and could no longer answer my concept questions.
Hopefully he just needs to get back into the swing of the literacy environment. I hope to kindle the fire in his mind throughout the entire duration of our next meeting.
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