Gretal Seet Jia Xuan attended Specialist Tutoring for 4 months at DAS Rex House Learning Centre. Gretal was a Secondary Four student at Admiralty Secondary School (Express Stream). She was referred to Specialist Tutoring as she had weakness in composition writing, and a lack of understanding in phonological decoding, passage-reading accuracy and reading comprehension.
Gretal is a pleasant and polite student who always appears calm during my lessons. Although Gretal was able to engage in daily conversations, she found it challenging at times to express her thoughts during oral conversations. She would constantly mention how difficult it is to get the word out and prefers to write her thoughts instead. Gretal and I had a good chat about her verbal outbursts in school when she was stressed at school. We had good conversations on how to control one’s emotions and how failures can be learning experiences.
I incorporated spelling drills, oral conversations based on selected topics, essay writing (expositive) and reading comprehension passages in the sessions. We did many reading comprehension passages and had lots of verbal conversations surrounding the topic to prepare her for the upcoming O-level Oral Paper. Gretal is a hardworking and self-disciplined student. She would read the topics ahead of the session to ensure she had relevant knowledge. Gretal shared her interest in pursuing Zoology and was always an independent learner.
Gretal attained a B3 for her O-level English when initially she used to obtain C6. I am heartened to see that Gretal’s efforts paid off and she did very well for her for O-level exams. Good Job Gretal!
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