Christopher started his lesson today learning the five of the sight words for 4.1. He practiced writing the words: move, remove, used, using, and taste. Christopher did a great job of this using colorful markers on the whiteboard. He then started the review of vowel sounds. We used the vowel sound chart with keywords and pictures. Christopher now recites two vowel sounds for each vowel along with two keywords. He is learning this well. Christopher practiced consonants and digraphs. He also rehearsed welded sounds. The lesson continued with playing the game of "ladder." Christopher read 24 words with long vowel sounds. He understands this lesson very well. Christopher learned to mark up the vowels by putting a long sign over the vowel, crossing out the silent e, and writing v-e under the vowel. Christopher then did charting using p. 2. He read all the words well and got 15/15. He then read ten sentences on p. 17 for phrasing and prosody. Christopher had some difficulty knowing where to phrase a sentence. We went over the good places to phrase being after the verb or before a preposition phrase. He does have a good sense of this. Christopher played Quick Drill in Reverse. He practiced his new vowel sounds as well as consonants, welded sounds and closed vowel exceptions. Christopher practiced writing the words grades, bones, case, trade, and whale. He used the whiteboard. In these words, Christopher had to mark up the vowels, find the digraph, and underline the base word and circle the suffix. Christopher practiced his sight words. We then began the dictation test. Christopher got all the sounds correct. He spelled five long vowel words correctly. He worked on the nonsense words and needed a reminder about the sound of /j./ Christopher wrote five sentences using some of the new words. We began the analysis and will pick it up again tomorrow.