Sometimes It's The Little Things That Give You Hope

[queenbookwench]

This afternoon I had a 7th grade girl, R., come into the library to do research on her science project. R. is a struggling reader, sometimes loud, and occasionally bullies other students. On the other hand, she sometimes shows a genuinely positive focus on her schoolwork. She was having trouble finding a site that would help her choose a topic, and asked for help, but was resistant to the site I suggested. Then I told her that she might want to try looking in one of the many science project idea books we have in the library--she didn't seem to think she could find anything useful by looking in a book. Then I had her go to Dogpile (which I've begun to prefer to Google, for working with this age group), but she was too impatient to sift through the multiple results on the results page. I suggested again that she try a book, and this time she was interested. I showed her the science project idea books, helped her pick a couple, and demonstrated how to use the Table of Contents--she did it!

Comments

[hurry-sundown.livejournal.com]

Look at you with the perserverance and the patience. You're kind of cool, you know that? *g*

[queenbookwench.livejournal.com]

Thanks, dahling! :) Funny, I didn't think of myself as being particularly patient at that moment--it was just an everyday learning kind of thing--but, hey, I'll take compliments!