Today we began our new novel study of the classic, Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White. We completed a shared reading of chapters 1 and 2. We are really working on slowing Piero’s pace as he at times will read quickly and muddle his words together. As we read, we made predictions, analyzed the feelings of the characters, and made inferences. After each chapter, we completed a fill-in-the blank summary using a word bank for further review of the material. Piero scored 24/30 in measured tasks. The challenge level increases with open-ended questions and when he exhibits difficulties, I offer two-choices to aid in his response. We also discussed the pronunciation and meanings of words such as runt, injustice, snout, appetite, and waded. Next, we enjoyed a few more riddles building on skills using inference. Today our clues led us to a wedding and a veterinarian’s office. Lastly, we had fun playing Jeopardy! This review activity tasked Piero with working with articles, pronouns, and the homophones to/too/two. Additionally, our categories included a revisit of analogies, which promote higher-order thinking skills as well as vocabulary connections. Our last category focused on powerful vocabulary words, offering more practice with some of our high-frequency words from Fantastic Mr. Fox as well as some of our suffixes. Piero answered questions on a Jeopardy style game board with 4 categories and 5 questions of increasing difficulty in each category. Several of the questions also incorporated multiple required responses. This is also a very heavily oral-dependent activity as Piero is in control of the tasks. He must choose the category, the value of the question, read the question, and provide a response. Support and assistance in providing revisions and choices are provided as needed. Oral language directed activities: We began with a nice conversation of the character, Captain Marvel adding her to our project. We then had fun with some Would You Rather questions. Piero decided he would rather have control over water instead of fire so that he could make MORE tsunamis. We discussed his misuse of the word “more” and he quickly corrected to the word “less”. I stumped him when I asked if he’d rather meet his favorite celebrity or be on a tv show. He quickly said he’d rather be on a tv show and was able to expand that to a show about soccer. But, when I asked if he’d rather be on a tv show about soccer or meet his favorite soccer player, Messi, he was quite torn!