Sam started class checking her PBDA homework page to see where her class is currently in Hoot, we could not tell and she said she doesn't remember the beginning so we started today at chapter 1. We team-read chapter 1, she read 2 pages then I read 2 and so on, and I made notes while she read. She is nearly quite fluent at this level (760 Lexile) and struggled with only 1-3 words per page (examples: squinting, wiry) and was able to read fluently through words such as incredibly and impatiently. She changes tone to show inflection for dialogue. Great job Sam. We stopped to check for clarity of new concepts and summarize during and at the end of chapter. During oral reading today Sam recorded us in Japanese in her iPad, this seemed to keep her much more motivated to read aloud and she was impressed with the end result: a notepad of our Japanese. :) At the close of class, we added 5 sight spelling words to make her spelling list 12. She added them to her notepad in her iPad.