Christopher started his lesson by reviewing the open vowel sounds using the guide words. I demonstrated how to mark up the words with open vowels on the whiteboard so that Christopher would have a guide for his analysis work today. Christopher had to identify the words with the open vowel "Y" sound. For this vowel, which sounds like an "" in some words, Christopher learned to underline the long vowel "y" and draw diacritical markings on top of the vowel showing that the "y" vowel sounds like /i./ Christopher practiced this skill on ten words. He needed guidance to recognize how to set up the diacritical markings. Christopher spelled all of the sight words correctly. He then worked on analysis of the sentences. Christopher remembered to capitalize the first word of a sentence 2/3 times. This was excellent. Christopher circled the punctuation at the end. He correctly marked all the words with closed vowels sounds and bonus letters. Christopher found all of the digraphs and the blends. He worked at marking up the new words with a long vowel sound (open vowel.) Christopher began the new lesson for Book 5.2 by reading five prefixes: pro, pre,de,e,co and re. Chsrisotpher read the words: defrost, prevent, rewind, and defend. Christopher will continue with this lesson next week.