Trenton read two fables in today's session, "The Scorpion and "The Grasshopper and the Ant". After a discussion about the central message of fables, he was able to accurately identify the central message of both passages. He then was able to identify the four characteristics of fables. Next, he began work on a personal narrative writing piece. He reviewed his brainstorm from last session and chose to write about his trip to Texas and a visit to the Schlitterbahn Waterpark Resort. Then he created a thinking map graphic organizer with information about his trip. Trenton did a wonderful job today and is anxious to begin drafting his story!

Trenton reviewed spelling digraphs /sh/, /ch/, /wh/ and /th/. He also practiced spelling some high frequency words on the whiteboard. Next, he read an article from Read Works about president John Adams. He did a great job! He was able to answer all questions with ease and is super knowledgeable and interested about the presidents. Trenton ended the session by brainstorming "favorite places" for a writing piece he will be working on during our next session.

Trenton did a fabulous job in our session today. We began with a review of the spelling digraphs /sh/ and /ch/. He then did a word building exercise and reviewed his spelling words for the week. Next, Trenton read an article about William Harrison and John Tyler. He was able to answer all 10 passage questions, citing text evidence for his answers. I was delighted to hear that he did so well on his tests at school this week! We are all so proud of him!

Trenton completed a comprehension pre-assessment for the year. He did quite well! He had approximately 8 miscues on the oral reading placing him at the Instructional Level for the passage. With look backs he was able to answer all of the comprehension questions. He took a spelling inventory which I will be analyzing to determine how to best help him improve in his spelling. We looked over his grammar homework and discussed goals for improvement. We discussed what types of articles he might be interested in reading this year and he shared that he was really interested in learning about the past presidents. He chose a few articles about presidents from the “ReadWorks” platform that we will use next week.

It was wonderful to work with Trenton again. I was so pleased to hear that he had such a great summer. I missed his sunny disposition and am so glad we have an opportunity to work together again. Today, I conducted a reading assessment to plan for instruction. He did a short fluency assessment, a sight word assessment, and a comprehension assessment. Trenton did a fine job and was very engaged and focused!

We found misspelled words in his writing and highlighted them. We created a Headbanz game to learn how to spell words from writing. We read the Einstein book together, stopping to make connections and comprehend phrases.

Last lesson of the summer... We continued learning spelling words from Trenton's writing entries. We played Headbanz with the words he was having difficulty. "Word Matters" lesson with Say, Cover, Write, Check, and crossword puzzle of spelling words. We continued reading Albert Einstein making predictions, summarizing each page, and making connections.

We wrote and drew about summer vacation plans- underlining words which did not look right. In our next session Trenton will practice spelling these words and looking at the various spelling patterns. He is also reading a bio on Albert Einstein, stopping after each page to make connections and to read between the lines.

I was so pleased to hear the news that Trenton received honors and also an award for improvement in reading. He has worked hard! In today's session, Trenton completed his reading of the article about Pluto. He answered comprehension questions with 80% accuracy finding text evidence to support his answers. He then read an article titled, "Reading Rules". Trenton answered questions regarding the author's viewpoint about reading and found evidence to support his point of view.

Trenton finished reading about tigers today. While reading, he found text evidence to support his answers to questions about a tiger's characteristics and habitats. Next, he created a Venn diagram comparing a tiger and a lion. He did a wonderful job on this and had some prior knowledge because he had studied the cat species at school. Trenton read about the planet Pluto afterward and reviewed some guiding questions about the topic. He is going to bring a book from school about the solar system to our next session. He reported that he did very well on his science test about life cycles! Bravo!