Oliver began his language arts session looking through various Astronomy and Space books that I checked out for him from the PBC Library System. He was thrilled to see all of the different books! After some quick book browsing time, Oliver transitioned to reading comprehension and completed his work on Pythons Invade the Everglades. He began the session by completing the vocabulary study that accompanied the assignment. We discussed context clues as one way to determine the meaning of a word within a piece of writing; in addition to, the importance of using outside sources like a dictionary, computer, or dictionary app to derive definitions of words. When reviewing the material that he had read, Oliver had some difficulty remembering key details, so I had him reread the passage to refresh his memory before completing the multiple choice and short answer questions. During the short answer writing work, I gave Oliver a mini-lesson on the reading skill of inferencing because he struggled with understanding author implied meaning within text. We discussed several examples of using your schema, or what you know, to determine answers that the author doesn't come out and say. Using this lesson, we went into the text and found places where the author implied certain things to help Oliver write answers to the written response questions. This is a reading skill that we will continue to work on throughout Oliver's time here.