Jonathan began by completing his Wednesday and Thursday Daily Language Reviews. These reviews focused on capitalization, punctuation, opposites, rhyming, and beginning/ending sounds. He then worked on "cause and effect:" *I suggested a cause and Jonathan told me a possible effect. I also reversed this, giving him the effect and he told me a possible cause. Jonathan read, aloud, "The Snowy Day." First, he focused on the characters and the settings in the story. The next activity to accompany this story asked Jonathan to write an effect for the given cause. He showed how he came up with his responses by using the text. The next area of study focused on story writing. This will take several days to complete. Jonathan began by brainstorming ideas for things he would like to do on a snowy day. Jonathan generated seven ideas. He picked four of these to write on his planning web. He picked the four that he thinks he will be able to write the most about when he writes his story. We worked on this for 15 minutes. The last part of today's lesson found Jonathon reading a one page story titled, "The Dog Ate My Homework." He wrote the answer to five story related questions, remembering to answer in complete sentences. Time allowed for him to complete the section on "cause and effect" as it related to the story.