Yanuell began his reading session with a nonfiction book called: America the Beautiful: Colorado. The America the Beautiful series has become one of Yanuell's favorites and is bursting with fascinating facts, up-to-date statistics, full-color photographs, and unusual lists guaranteed to elicit at least one WOW with the turn of every page. The series takes an editorial approach to the geography, history, people, economy, and government of each state making it one that students gravitate towards for researching. While Yanuell loved the entire book, he was particularly excited to read about the many different dinosaur fossils that have been found in Colorado. After the reading and research, Yanuell decided that he wanted to reread America the Beautiful: Missouri and compare and contrast with Colorado. This was an exciting reading activity and he used his classroom white board to list the similarities and differences. During this process, Yanuell added several new vocabulary words to his journal. He was very interested in deforestation, what it means and how it effects to environment. Yanuell transitioned to his Comprehension Skills workbook where he read a story called Silly Laws. The comprehension questions focused on the reading skill of fact and opinion and Yanuell did an excellent job answering them.