Christopher began his lesson by reviewing the open vowel sounds. We used the whiteboard and the colorful markers. Christopher read the words: rewind, erupt, protest, remind, desire, and demand. Christopher can read these words. The main part of this lesson was to mark up the words to show the analysis of the syllables and the vowel type. Christopher practiced making a long sign over the vowel for an open vowel. He copied the right formation of the symbols from my demonstration. Christopher reviewed the welded sounds and remembered to box welded sounds. We reviewed underlining digraphs and underlining blends. Christopher worked on scooping syllables to show that the open syllable means that there is no consonant closing the syllable. We returned to the analysis of the sentences from the dictation. Christopher reviewed the fact that a sentence starts with a capital letter. He made a capital "A" for the name Alex. Christopher copied the correct spelling of "should" from my demonstration on the whiteboard. He circled the sight words "should" and "his." On the second sentence, Christopher reviewed the meaning of baseword and suffix on the word pancakes. He reviewed the idea that "s" at the end of the word means more than one. Christopher read the story The Basement Mess. He was able to retell the story, but needed a second reading of paragraph two to recognize that the boy, Mike, had a consequence for leaving the basement a mess. He had to clean it up before he would be allowed to go to the baseball game. We will continue to review all syllable types as we go forward.