The session began with a review of both real and nonsense words. Samantha was fluent with the real words and did some tapping for the nonsense words. She charted both real and nonsense words and did a super job on both lists. Next Samantha used the magnetic tiles to identify letters and sounds. She then spelled dictated words, which included nonsense words. For the written part of the lesson Samantha spelled 5/7 words correctly. One of the words she had difficulty with was whiz and the other one was mesh. She is working on the /s/ and /sh/ sounds in encoding words. The remainder of this lesson will continue tomorrow. Upon completion of this lesson we will work on step 1.5.