Kellan started his lesson today by reading a large stack of nonsense words with welded sounds: fung, lunk, fing, zang, quink. Kellan practiced sight words: want, salt, walk, chalk, comb, and half. He wrote these words three times each to remember the silent letters in these words. Kellan worked on the whiteboard with a colorful marker. Next, Kellan took the dictation test. He wrote five nonsense words and five sight words. Kellan reviewed these words with a red pen and boxed welded sounds. Next, Kellan took the sentence dictation section. He wrote three sentences. Later, he reviewed the sentences and underlined the first letter of the word in the sentence to remind him that it's a capital letter. In two sentences, Kellan forgot to make a capital letter so he made this correction with a red pen. Next, Kellan circled the punctuation at the end of a sentence. In the first sentence, he realized that he forgot to put punctuation. This shows me that Kellan is beginning to have an automatic application of this habit. Kellan underlined all basewords and circled the suffix. He marked up the vowels and boxed the welded sounds. Kellan needed to make the correction on the word ping-pong. He learned that "pong" has a welded sound of "ong." Kellan had to make a correction on "balls." He wrote: bols. Kellan reviewed the welded sound "all." He then rewrote the word and underlined the baseword and circled the suffix. Kellan has successfully completed his first dictation for 2.1. Next week we will move on to more review of nonsense words.