Emilia completed putting together her August calendar, finished calendar talk and calendar writing, read her short (a) sight words, read and discussed a story from the first-grade reader, "Jack Can," learned about story details, worked on putting sentences together, and completed several activities pertaining to short (a) words.

Alexandra completed her calendar talk and calendar writing activity, read her sight words, put together her daily sentence puzzle, and worked on phonics activities.

Brayden completed a reading comprehension activity.

Alexandra completed her calendar talk, calendar writing, daily sentence puzzle, read her sight words, phonic activities, and worked on unscrambling sentences

Alexandra completed her calendar talk, calendar writing, daily sentence puzzle, read her sight words, and worked on several reading comprehension activities.

Brayden completed a reading comprehension. activity.

After noting the date on our wall calendar and a discussion about the upcoming summer month that will commence on Friday, Alexandra engaged in a guided reading exercise. Although initially hesitant to sound out words, with prompts and modelling techniques and supported with encouragement, Alexandra read a few sight words that were repeated in the text and matched them with her emergent reader and 'short a' word list. She was offered support if needed and identified and matched the words effectively. Alexandra was then invited to predict and discuss the meaning of the text/story, demonstrating very good comprehension when queried. She finished up the session completing a final letter/word work activity.

Alexandra participated in a guided reading exercise using two of her books. We reviewed titles, authors, illustrators, and story characters, and Alexandra was prompted to follow the written words as I underscored each word with my finger. We worked on a reading comprehension booklet and sequenced different events. She then was prompted to read a series of 8 pre-primer sight words, doing so correctly 7 out of 8 words. Mastery of these words will help Alexandra gain confidence and momentum in her reading development. Furthermore, automatic recognition of these (Dolce) sight words will help her focus on comprehending the meaning of the text which in turn facilitates a love of reading and sets the stage for academic success. Alexandra asked me to read one of the books twice, but this was contingent on her reading certain words aloud when pointed out and assisted, if necessary, with prompting methods. I also showed her a book about sign language and after explaining it to her, we signed a few key words such as I love you, mom and dad, and toilet, or bathroom. We finished the session listening to ‘The Planet Song,’ and Alexandra pointed out her favorite planets and requested one about the dwarf planets to conclude our day.

Brayden worked on and completed a reading comprehension activity.

Brayden completed his summer reading assignment pertaining to his literature book, "Brave."