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Listening
Today's article was titled Eating Autumn Leaves in Japan. This is another article from News in Easy English (http://newsineasyenglish.com/2014/11/02/viewing-and-eating-autumn-leaves-in-japan/). News in Easy English is a pretty good resource for easy listening articles. I'm uncertain of the best way to have 2T listen to the articles. News in Easy English provides sound files, generally in multiple speeds, for their accompanying articles but the lag and limitations of Skype conspire to prevent launching the sound files from my end and listening to them together over the web effectively. So far, I've found the best method is to read the article aloud to 2T in lieu of playing the provided sound file. On the plus side, because of our growing familiarity in working together, this gives me the ability to adjust the reading pace to his comfortable listening/comprehension speed or to speed up the delivery pace of an article to challenge him more when the new vocabulary load is light. On the downside, reading inhibits my ability to observe the student for non-verbal signs of confusion or struggle for comprehension. I would welcome suggestions.
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