Christopher started his lesson today by reviewing the long vowel sound of "a." He continued with short vowel sounds for "o" and "u" as well as the schwa sound. Christopher has been away from Wilson for two weeks, so we did extra review on how the long vowel sound is formed by adding an "e" to the end of the word. Christopher practiced the sounds of three coonsonants, and six welded sounds. He then took his dictation test. Christopher spelled all of the sounds correctly. He spelled all of the real words correctly and the high frequency words correctly. Christopher had a little trouble on the word "because" but then he remembered that there is a "u" after the "a" in the word "because." Christopher continued the test with the nonsense words. Here he had a little difficulty applying the rules with two syllable words. We reviewed the fact that only in a one syllable word does the ending in "l", "s", or "f" get doubled. We made these corrections. Christopher asked to do the analysis of the words before taking dictation of the sentences. He did a good job of scooping the syllable, and marking up the vowels. The rest of the lesson was the writing of three sentences. Christopher remembered to capitalize the name, "Steve", which was the first word of the sentence. When the second two sentences were written, Christopher started with a lower case "i." Christopher needs more review on starting a sentence with a capital letter. We will continue to do this. I also tried to assist Christopher in making a lower case "p" in the middle of a word rather than a capital "P." We are working hard on correcting this letter formation. The lesson will continue on Wedensday with analysis, and then Christopher will be moving on to Book 4, Lesson 3.