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Tutoring English sentence structure to young children in grades one through seven requires, not only teaching the proper grammatical rules, but also requires teaching students how to construct basic English sentences through the use of imagery.
Young students have difficulty writing exactly what's on their mind at any given time as a result of their thinking being somewhat disorganized to effectively put their thoughts in writing. If the thoughts are unclear, the writing will also be incomprehensible. Listen to the average young student verbally describe what they just read, for example. They often skip the important parts of the story and use improper sequencing. If you had one average young student read a story and described that story to another average student, you would have a completely different story or one that's degraded.
Tutoring Students To Think With Visual Images
The best way to help students become organized in their thought process is to have them think in visual images rather than words. Thinking in terms of a complex mix of words, phrases, and sentences to describe a thought is much more difficult than thinking in terms of one image. Like the saying goes, "One image is worth a thousand words." Thinking in terms of language is also difficult for young people who are still learning the rules and structure of English language.
The idea is to tutor using simple images. If the student is describing the appearance of a character in a story, for example, rather than create a complex image of the character, start the image off with just one feature of that character. That feature may simply be the sex of the character, for example. Therefore, have the student create an image in his or her mind of a boy or a girl, or a man or a woman. Then simply add features to the image as they become known to the student as he or she reads the story. Each time a new feature is revealed, the feature is added to the image.
Once the image is complete and the student is able to clearly see that image in his or her mind, the next process for Tutoring English is to put the image of the story's character into words that make sense. To do this, the student must choose one or two features of the character and then write a sentence to describe those features. The following sentences of the character description are simply describing additional one or two features of the character until the description is complete. Once the description is complete, have the student compare his or her written description with that of the image created in his or her mind.
John H Chartrand is founder of Ottawa Tutors, a tutoring company in Ottawa, Ontario. As a 15 year Certified Teacher, John has awide experience in education. His website is full of fantastic articles on the subject of tutoring and education . Visit: Ottawatutors.org
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