Kellan started his lesson by taking dictation for the last two sentences in his test. Kellan then worked on the analysis of the test. He spelled all the real words, nonsense words, and sight words correctly. Kellan did all the markups on the sentences, including marking up the vowel-consonant-e words. For this activity, I gave him a model to refer to while he is getting used to this new syllable type. Then, Kellan read the story, Fun with Dad. Kellan discussed the plot with me about a dad that plays hide and go seek with his tots. Kellan could imagine that the tots were frightened when the dad hid wearing a mask and jumped out at the children. They cried and ran to their mother.
Next, Kellan started a new lesson on 4.1 nonsense words. Kellan practiced all the long and short sounds of the vowels with guide words. He practiced the consonants and digraphs: b, g,s, z, k, wh, ck, sh, and ch. Kellan practiced the welded sounds: ang, ank olt, ind, ing, unk, and am. Kellan read the words: shave, broke and game to review the vowel-consonant-e syllables. Then he read the nonsense words made with magnetic tiles: vime, dreve, scobe, spive, and draze. Today we reviewed the lesson that when an "s" is between two vowels, it has a /z/ sound. Kellan played ladder to practice a large stack of 4.1 words. Next, Kellan took the charting test on p. 14. Although Kellan had a little trouble on the words: prune and Steve, he made the correction himself and got 15/15 on the test.