Christopher started his lesson by reviewing the vowel consonant e syllable type by reading the nonsense words: dafe and creve. He continued by reading the sentences on p. 14. Christopher used the vis-a-vis marker and did a good job of marking up the phrases, showing that he understands where the prepositional phrases are, and where to pause a little. In two instances, I had to stop him to show him how to keep an adjective and noun together and an adverb and adjective together, for example: the phrase quite long. Here the adverb quite modifies the adjective long to show to what extent. Christopher then played Quick Drill in Reverse. He was able to tell me all of the long vowel sounds and the short vowel sounds. Christopher correctly read and pointed to the consonants v, z, g, r, and p. We discussed one permissible way to make a lower case "p" by starting from the bottom the way Christopher prefers to do, but starting below the line so that the letter is lower case and not a capital letter in the middle of a word. Christopher practiced the welded sounds ost, ind, olt, ing, all, and ank. He built words using the tiles to practice before the dictation test. He built: rented, detected, and publishing. Christopher built the words glaze, drone, blade, bathe, and spike. On the word "bathe" we discussed the voiced sound of the "th" digraph. Christopher practiced sight words using the colorful markers on the whiteboard. He wrote: your, her, does, for and we. The word "does" gave Christopher a little trouble, but he paid close attention to it and tried to learn to spell it correctly. Christopher then took his dictation test. He did a great job on every read word and nonsense word. He spelled all the sight words correctly. Christopher is beginning to remember to make a capital letter at the beginning of a sentence. He finds it very difficult to incorporate this habit. Christopher still needs reminders to put a period at the end of a sentence. Christopher did the entire analysis of the page after the test. He was able to successfully mark up the v-e words. He marked up closed vowel sounds and boxed welded sounds correctly. Christopher did a good job.