- I read McDuff's New Friend to Gabbie.
- Gabbie read I Really Like Slop to me.
- I read Merry Christmas Splat to Gabbie.
- Gabbie retold the story of How the Grinch Stole Christmas by looking at the pictures.
- Gabbie and I read Let's Go for a Drive together.
- We played a word game.

Dillon continued working on point of view today. He has been working on memorizing key response stems such as “According to the text…”, “The author stated…”, and “In paragraph_#_it states ….” . This helps as a reminder to Dillon that he must go back to the text and use evidence directly from the text when responding to questions. The FSA is paper and pencil for third grade. I shared with Dillon that it is also very important that he write legibly, so that the person scoring his test can read his response. Dillon worked neatly and carefully today, and he has improved in his response writing.

- Gabbie finished her math homework.
- Gabbie practiced her vocabulary.
- Gabbie practiced her spelling words.
- Gabbie and I read There's a Fly Guy in my Soup together.
- I read "What Makes a Plant?" to Gabbie.

- Nicholas read Mat and The Lost Dog.
- I read McDuff's New Friend, The Country Angels, and Merry Christmas, Big Hungry Bear.
- We talked about topics he might write for stories.
- We played a card game.

- Glen drew pictures on the dry erase board as a basis for a story.
- As he drew, he dictated a story for me to write.
- He copied the first part of his story onto paper and made a picture to go with it.
- He read the first part of Rudolf to the Rescue.

Dillon worked on his homework packet today which consisted of vocabulary and FSA type practice passages. The work on vocabulary consisted of work building words with prefixes. The FSA practice centered on answering questions about text features and on using text features to quickly locate information in a text. (3RI2.5). After completing this work, he worked on determining an author's point of view in informational text. (3RI2.6). I stressed the importance of close reading and using the question stems when writing about evidence in the text. Dillon was focused and put good effort into his work today!

- Nicholas read Mat, The Lost Dog, and Dot and Mit to me.
- I read Rudolf to the Rescue and Who'll Pull Santa's Sleigh Tonight?
- We played a word game.

- Nicholas wrote his name in a card and Ethan on the envelope.
- Nicholas copied some of his story that he dictated.
- Nicholas and I read Let's Go for a Drive and Can I Play Too? together.
- Nicholas read Mat.
- Nicholas made pictures for the story he wrote.

- Gabbie read all five stories from the Mo Willems books, some alone and some with me.
- We practiced with compound words on the dry erase board.
- Gabbie dictated a little bit of a story that we will continue later.
- I read How the Grinch Stole Christmas to her.
- We played a word game.

Dillon reviewed using text features and author's point of view today. First, he was given a passage to read that focused on text features. Dillon did a great job identifying text features and their usage and scored 7 out of 8 correct on this FSA practice passage. Next, he reviewed author's point of view and how to identify evidence that supports the author's view. He did not have a chance to complete this and will continue this exercise at our next session. I was very pleased to note that Dillon is doing a great job of sounding out unknown words in passages. His ability to chunk words has greatly improved!