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Before I even met Mary, her teachers described her as being smart, driven, and hard working. As I got to know Mary better, I found out that all of these characteristics are true. Mary has come a long way from when she first arrived in America. She knew virtually no English at the beginning of the school year, but by the end of my observations, she was holding conversations in English with other people. The majority of the time I was with Mary we would read stories and do worksheets. Mary would do her best to read all of the words in the book. If she got stuck on a word, I would help her out. After I told her how to say a word or what it meant, she would repeat that word back to me so she would remember it. Mary caught on very fast to the material that we worked on. She would only have to ask about a word once and then she would recognize it if that same word came up again. She would ask questions when she did not understand a word or problem. I would do my best to explain to her what the question or word meant, and she usually understood. When we were talking and she did not remember what a specific word was in English, she would describe the word and use actions. I would guess the word and then she would continue on with our conversation. When Mary read out loud to me, her pace was slow and she would sometimes struggle with certain words. However, when she read to herself, which was in a whisper, she read at a normal to fast rate. The area Mary struggled the most in was the comprehension of the stories. She could read the stories fairly easily, but when she had to answer questions about the content, she struggled to understand the connection to the story. When Mary would sound out words, that she was spelling, she would strugg... ... middle of paper ... ... 2014, from Support4Change.com website: http://www.support4change.com/ index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=108 Holland, C. (Presenter). (2014, January 16). Adolescent development. Lecture presented in Grand Forks, ND. Holland, C. (Presenter). (2014, March 4). Erikson's stages of development. Lecture presented in Grand Forks, ND. Huitt, W., & Hummel, J. (2003). Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development. Retrieved May 3, 2014, from Educational Psychology Interactive website: http:// www.edpsycinteractive.org/topics/cognition/piaget.html USDA.gov. (n.d.). United states department of agriculture. Retrieved May 3, 2014, from ChooseMyPlate.gov website: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/index.html Wakefield, D., & Hudley, C. (n.d.). Ethnic and racial identity and adolescent well-being. Theory Into Practice, 147-154.

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