Andrew began the lesson by finishing the last sentence of his dictation. Andrew then started the analysis portion of the dictation by using a red pen to make the markings necessary to show his understanding of the syllabication of words and the sounds of the vowels, blends, and digraphs. Andrew scooped all of the real words into two syllables. He marked up the closed vowel sounds. He underlined the digraphs and blends. In one case on the word implant, Andrew was shown that the "m" goes with the vowel to close in the vowel and make it short. The "pl' is the blend starting the second syllable. Andrew divided the nonsense words into syllables as well. He spelled all of the sight words: under, another, friend, comb, and island correctly. In the sentence portion, Andrew put two lines under the first letter of a sentence and circled the punctuation. He circled all of the sight words. Andrew scooped all of the two syllable words, marked up the vowels, underlined the blends and digraphs, and boxed the welded sounds and the closed vowel exceptions. Sometimes he had to rethink as in the word, "plankton." Andrew was reminded the when spelling a multisyllabic word, the /k/ sound is spelled with a "c." Actually, in this particular word, the "ank" in plankton is a welded sounds. Andrew could see that after he reviewed the markup and made the correction. Andrew read each sentence back to me. He then spelled the words orally, correctly while I covered them up. We completed the lesson with Andrew reading "The Red Sox Win." Andrew did a good job of setting the scene when we worked on comprehension. He understood how the Red Sox started with a score of zero when the opposing team had 6 points, but then, with a "grand slam" the Red Sox were able to add four points to their score. They had three more runs and were able to beat the opposing team 7-6. Andrew enjoyed the discussion about baseball. We discussed the vocabulary word "pinch hit." Andrew was involved in a three way discussion with Mr. Marcus and me about how the team coach picks a "pinch hitter" from the line up in order to protect a very important pitcher.