Kellan started his lesson today by reviewing five sight words. He wrote Mr., Ms., a.m., will, and from on the whiteboard with colorful markers. Kellan needed help on the word "will." He now knows that it has 2 l's. Kellan learned to put a period after the a. and m. in a.m. meaning the morning time of day. We will discuss the concept of 24 hours in a day at our next lesson. Kellan took dictation for the end of this 1.3 lesson. He got all of the read words correct, nonsense words correct, and sight words correct. Kellan wrote three sentences given in dictation. We had enough time for Kellan to do the analysis on his test. Kellan marked up all the vowels in the words that he wrote using the correct markings. We worked on analysis of the sentences. Here, Kellan is still learning to capitalize the first letter of the first word of a sentence. He then circled all the sight words, and marked up the vowels. Kellan spelled the words in the sentence to me aloud without looking at his paper. Kellen needed to make a correction for the sight word: "for" he spelled it "fore." We reviewed the rule that a person's name starts with a capital letter. Kellan made the correction writing a capital C for the name Chad. Kellan read the story of the Jog. We wrote the word rut in the notebook dictionary. A definition and a sentence were entered. Kellan made an excellent drawing of a child who was riding his bike being catapulted off the bike as the bike accidentially landed in a "rut." We discussed he meaning of the word lap. Kellan knew that a lap was one run around a track. After reading, we worked on comprehension of the text by making a movie in our heads. In Wilson, the student is encouraged to visualize what is happening in the story so that they can construct meaning and have a reference for comprehension questions. Kellan started another section of the 1.3 lesson. We review the vowels, consonants, and digraphs with key words first. Kellan read the nonsense and real words that I gave him for review. He read quat, tup, and hem. The real words he read from the magnetic tiles were: rum, yak, sack, whiz, and zag. I pointed out that "yak" does not follow the rule of using "ck" to represnet the /k/ sound at the end of a one syllable word. Kellan played the word game, Ladder, to practice a large stack of 1.3 words. I charted Kellan on the real words using 1.3 A words from p. 27. Kellan got 15/15. He was very happy that he has passed this lesson. I also charted him on the nonsense words. Here he got 11/15. We still need to do some work on the nonsense words. Kellan needs more review on the letters j, y, g, z, and x. He has confusion intermittently with these letters depending upon what position they are in inside a word. Very good progress for today. We will work on sentence reading next time.