Today we started our session with a Word Study Lesson on the sounds of gh. Josh did an excellent job on workbook page 10. Then I had him redo a previous 9th grade Comprehension Check that he had scored a 53% on. Unfortunately, Josh scored a 53% on his second attempt. When I inquired as to why he felt that he had not been able to improve his score, he said that he was having an “off” day because he had not had time to eat a snack before coming to our session and he was hungry. I felt that there may have been some resistance to redoing this assessment and he might not have re- read all of the passages. I explained to Josh that while he may not always like the assignment that I ask him to do, he must try his best on them because there’s always an academic purpose for the assignments. We ended the session with Josh’s favorite activity. He read the story “The Russian Giants” out of the Aliens and UFO’s book.