Christopher started his lesson today by analyzing the dictation he did during our last session. First Christopher reviewed the vowel sounds of all five vowels. He began to analyze his dictation test. Chrstioher had all of the sounds correct. Next, it was time to scoop the real words into syllables and mark up the vowels. Christopher needed review at this point. We went back to Book 5.1, the introductory lesson to the open vowel. We reviewed pages 2 and 3 to get more practice with words having an open vowel. Christopher used the whiteboard and colorful markers to scoop words into syllables and use the correct markings to show that the open vowel is a long vowel sound. Christopher copied some of the words with their markings. Next, Christopher marked six words on the whiteboard showing the open vowel sound. We continued reviewing to reinforce the way to mark an open vowel. Christopher needed review to remember the difference between the open vowel, the closed vowel, and the vowel-consonant-e syllable types. We reviewed the guide words for all of the open vowels. Christopher then went back to the analysis page of the dictation. He was able to correctly mark up all of the real words and the nonsense words.