Kellan started his lesson by analyzing the last sentence in his dictation. He did it all by himself, underlining the first letter of a sentence, circling all the sight words, marking up all the words with digraphs, welded sounds, and closed vowel exceptions. Kellan started lesson 2.4 by reciting all the sounds of the vowels and their keywords. He reviewed the digraphs and consonants: sh, v, g, b, n, and k. Kellan reviewed the sounds of the welded sounds and closed vowel exceptions: old, ost, ind, ang, unk, ink, and olt. Kellan read the review words: mold child and wild, applying the closed vowel exception rule. Kellan needed a review of the meaning of the word "mold." We looked up the definition in his personal dictionary and reviewed his diagram and the sentence. Next, Kellan was instructed about the use of five sounds in a word. Kellan read the words: shrimp, clump, flunk, branch, and shrunk from the magnetic tiles. He could see that sometimes the sounds are within the welded sound. They are still counted as individual sounds. Kellan played Chutes and Ladders to help him practice a large stack of real and nonsense words from 2.4. Kellan practiced the sight words: about, out, want, front, and half. Kellan still needs a review of the words "want" and "half." Kellan read the sentences on p. 56 using a vis-a-vis marker to scoop the phrases as he read. Next, Kellan was tested on the word list on p. 56. He received a perfect score on page 56. Kellan will continue tomorrow.