Once again, teaching Glen was the highlight of my day. We began with a phonological awareness exercise Level I#1. Glen has this level to automaticity, and we will move on. I conducted a sound deck review, including visual, auditory, and blending drills. Glen syllabicated a list of three-syllable words, identified syllable types, and successfully read the unfamiliar words. He read a timed oral reading fluency passage entitled "Life in the Everglades" with adequate rate, prosody, and comprehension. I taught a morphology lesson, reviewing prefixes, suffixes, and root words and learning several new prefixes.

To conclude the session, Glen read a list of 15+ irregular words. I was thrilled with Glen's ability to read some problematic words (thorough, doubt, height, business, guess, guest, guide, guy, guard, journey, journal, answer, sign, muscle, machine, Wednesday, want, what.)

What I enjoy most about Glen is his curiosity. When I teach, he always wants to know more; today, we investigated the etymology of the irregular words because the spellings irritated him! Even with our detours, we still moved through more material than prepared. Great work, Glen!