Christopher started his lesson by playing Quick Drill in Reverse. He practiced the long sounds of the vowels first by reciting using the chart as a guide. Next, I wrote a sample word with the open vowel sounds on the whiteboard and showed Christopher how to mark up the vowel. This open vowel concept is new to Christopher so we will review until it seems easier to him. Christopher practiced the long vowel sounds for a, e, i, o, and u. He is also learning the sound of y=/i/ when y is used as a vowel at the end of the word, like in the word "sky." Christopher practiced the digraphs and consonants: th, g, z, j, and f. He practiced the welded sounds: ing, ank, all, ive, onk, and old. Christopher did the markups for the words "demonstrate' and "inexpensive" as a review. He scooped the words into syllables and showed the correct markings for each syllable type. Christopher used magnetic tiles to spell the words: sly, pry, why, spry, and sky. In each case, Christopher was helped with finding the vowel "y" when it says, "i." Christopher worked on the dictation for the rest of the period. He wrote five sounds, five real words, and five nonsense words. Christopher spelled all of the sight words correctly. Christopher wrote three sentences for dictation. We will do the analysis tomorrow. Christopher ended our session by reading, The Spy Plan. He did a good job of reading the text and describing the action to me. Christopher was able to answer inference questions today.