Thanks for returning the Stephen Curry book! I hope he enjoyed it. We began our session today with a fluency passage. On his first cold read he read at a rate of 89 wcpm. He did quite well and had good expression and intonation. I sent this home with him for practice throughout the week. He then finished reading the biography of Keven Durant. Dillon identified the main idea and key details in the last chapter. He then used this reading to fill in his reading log for tonight.
Next, we began work on a pair of informational passages about bugs. He began reading the first section titled, "Big Bugs". He identified the headings and main ideas of the first few sections of the passage. We will continue this assignment at our next session. He is doing very well and I enjoy working with him!

We began today's session by reviewing Trenton's math homework. He requested assistance with math models of operations. He did very well on the problems that he was assigned. Next, we went on to his reading work. We began with a fluency progress monitoring passage. Trenton read at a rate of 69 wcpm. Then, he read paired passages on bugs. The first passage was called, "Big Bugs". He read this article paying careful attention to the section headings. He then was asked to go back and determine the main idea of each of the passage sections. Next, he used context clues to determine word meaning. He did very well on both of these activities. Trenton did not have time to complete the second article, so we will continue this at our next session. Trenton continues to work hard in our sessions and is a joy to have as a student!

Siena forgot to bring her word rings in but reported that she now knows all of the words that were on her rings. We looked at the second 25 high frequency words (HFW) and Siena identified correctly the words "too" and "as". We will begin our focus on the following HFW words from that list : "for", "all", "ball", "day", "play", "was", and "fun". I've also begun to look at her decoding ability. I administered a letter/sound identification assessment. She was able to correctly identify all the letter names. She was also able to identify all the consonant sounds however could not give me both the short and long sound for the vowels. That is an area we will address in our sessions. As Siena encounters unknown words in her reading, I am noticing that she doesn't attend to the initial sound. Rather, she uses the picture clues to guess at the word and doesn't verify if the word in print starts with the sound or if the word she guessed at looks right or sounds right. She needs to be encouraged to point to the words as she reads and "get her mouth ready" for the first sound of an unknown word. We will focus on phonics and decoding unknown words in our sessions. For word work today, we did word building puzzles and a rhyming game. I introduced a new story, "Rosa Gets A Pet". She seems to be enjoying our word work and is cheerful and happy during our sessions.

Dillon's fluency is steadily improving. On today's ongoing progress monitoring, he read the passage at 89 wcpm. He did this with appropriate pausing and good expression. He was practicing at home and it shows! Next, we continued work on finding main ideas and key details in a text with a biography of Kevin Durant. Dillon read 3 chapters and identified the main idea and 2 supporting details in each of the chapters. Dillon still needs support finding the main idea of a passage because he sometimes lists the supporting details as the main idea. We will continue to work on this important skill.

I am so pleased with Siena's progress. She practiced her high frequency words over the weekend and knows almost all of the first 25. In our session, we reviewed the words she knows on her word ring and practiced the last 5 on her "need" to practice ring. We practiced her words with a dry erase board on which she wrote the words and then read them to me. Next, we played a bingo game with the sight words. This is a great way to practice her words since she needs to read them, say them, and recognize them on the game board. After completing the sight word bingo game, Siena reread the books she brought home for practice. Then, I introduced her to a new text which introduced the /ea/ sound. She will be bringing this text home for practice. Siena is a pleasure to work with and is doing very well. !

Today, Siena and I worked with her high frequency words. I made 2 word rings for her to use at home. One ring included the words she knows now and the second ring has practice words on it. We will move the words over and add new words on the practice rings as she learns her HFW words. Next, we read some level B texts, which are texts at her independent reading level. This is the level text I recommend she practice reading in at home. She did quite well, and I am sending them home for her to read to her family. She next practiced building sight words with plastic letters. She built the words, spelled them out loud, and then recorded them on a sheet of paper. Siena was happy and engaged throughout our work session.

It was wonderful to meet Siena. At first she was very shy, but opened up quickly as we talked about school and she told me a bit about herself. After taking some time to get to know each other, we began our work with a high frequency word (HFW) assessment. She could read 10 of the first 25 words on the list. We chose 5 of the unknown words to begin work with right away. We used stamps to write the HFW words and practiced spelling, saying and reading the words. We then read an alphabet book which she enjoyed very much. I am looking forward to working with Siena. She is a very friendly and engaging child!

Dillon started the session with a Fluency Progress Monitoring passage. He scored 74 wcpm which is right on track. He then practiced another fluency passage called, "Open House". Dillon brought this passage home for practice during the week. Next, we started an informational text about Kevin Durant. He began with a KWL chart filling in what he knows about Kevin Durant and what he wants to know. He read the first chapter, and we discussed information we found. He was very interested in another book I had about Steph Curry. Dillon asked to bring it home and said he will be reading it over the week and will bring it back on Monday. It's so great to see him so excited about reading! He is doing a super job with these sports biographies because he has so much prior knowledge! He loves his basketball!!!

Today, Dillon completed reading the book we started at our last session, "Rosa Parks, Mother of the Civil Rights". Dillon did a great job pulling the important details out of the text and putting them in his graphic organizer. He then read a Read Works article, "American Heroes: Celebrate Black History Month". Dillon answered comprehension questions about the text after reading. He needs to be careful when answering comprehension questions and read the question critically so that he fully understands what the question is asking. He also needs to be reminded to read all the possible answers before selecting the correct answer. We ended the session by continuing our practice in fluency. Dillon read and reread a passage we started on Monday. He brought the passage home to continue this practice. He is doing quite well!

Today, we began our session with a short fluency session. Trenton read and reread a short passage. He was encouraged to read with accuracy, proper pausing at punctuation and at a smooth rate. We then read a Read Works passage about African American Heroes and Black History Month. Trenton has been studying this topic at school and had a great deal of prior knowledge about the topic. He read the passage and answered comprehension questions about the main idea and key details in the passage. He was reminded to read all possible answers before selecting his answer. He did a good job answering the questions and enjoyed the lesson.