Tutoring to make the student engage

The tutor can address common grammar issues in ways that make the student think, solve, and learn for herself, instead of simply providing her with the corrections and explaining them. To make the student engage, a tutor can share a memorable example, explain the rule, and then question the student how that rule should be applied to her own sentence. Then, and this can be difficult, the tutor must stop talking, sit quietly, and watch her struggle. Let her figure it out, and when she does, start talking again about how super she is to have discovered the answer. It is her discovery that matters, and not all the knowledge that exists in the tutor’s head.