Kanaiyah read two passages around the same topic, one fiction and one nonfiction. Then, she answered questions about each of them and questions that applied to both. Next, she looked for keywords in the questions and then restated them. She also practiced skimming for keywords within the passages to help answer the questions.

It was a pleasure getting to know Kaniyah as a reader. She was very attentive and cooperative throughout our session. She read an article from ReadWorks fluently and with strong comprehension. She also read a nonfiction book on the ReadingEggspress site, stopping frequently to summarize the text. We worked on breaking a few longer words into syllables to decode them. This is an area we will continue to focus on as we work to strengthen Kaniyah’s confidence and performance as a reader.

Kaniyah and I started the session playing Alphabet Bingo, voicing all letter sounds. I reviewed vowels; Kaniyah wanted to write them on the dry erase board. Using sound deck, I created CVC words (nonsense and real), which Kaniyah read and then wrote on the board. I dictated simple sentences that Kaniyah wrote on the board with correct capitalization and punctuation. We played Jenga sight words (some of the words were too hard; I explained to her that many were sixth-grade words!). We finished the session reading Frog and Toad. Great session!

We started with a game of Alphabet Bingo, voicing all letter sounds. I taught a quick lesson on the concept of closed and open syllables. We then played a game of Connect 4 with the pieces labeled with either open or closed words. We then played a game of sight word Jenga which Kaniyah loved. She wanted to write on the board so I dictated a simple sentence, emphasizing capitalization and punctuation. We then switched places and she dictated a sentence to me. We found a label maker and Kaniyah made a label to put her name on the door and made one to take home. We concluded the session with a game of Slap! with closed syllables. Great job today!

I enjoyed meeting Kaniyah and her family. After chatting a bit, we played several games of Alphabet bingo voicing letter sounds. I feel that Kaniyah knows all of the first level of sounds. She was absolutely thrilled to beat me twice! I then taught her to play Slap!, a card game that involves reading consonant-vowel-consonant words. I was pleased how well Kaniyah read; she is not automatic with her reading, but she absolutely has the decoding skills to read the words. I dictated several words for her to write on the dry erase board; her encoding (spelling) skills are just as solid as her decoding, and she has very nice handwriting, with proper letter formation. I finished the session reading aloud a very silly book that Kaniyah really enjoyed. She is a delightful child and I look forward to working with her this year!

We are reading 'Are My Mother?' Kaniyah wanted to read it on her own and she's doing great! We are working on looking at the pictures to figure out unknown words, sounding out, and asking "Does that make sense?"

We are adding to our word wall and reviewing by singing and dancing!(-;

We read Hop on Pop, sounding out words and looking through the word from the beginning, middle, to the end. We covered exclamation points and looking at the pictures to figure out the words.

Worked on rhyming words with /MY/ and /AT/, past tense, pronouncing the /TH/ in mother. Continued to read Are You My Mother? Tracking print with finger, chunking words and using pictures to figure out unknown words.

We worked on the Florida Alphabet, and letter sounds. We made a Word Wall with new words / word patterns learned from our Dr. Seuss book. We used letter tiles to make and spell new rhyming words. We wrote her camp schedule and went over spelling patterns of words spelled incorrectly.

We read Green Eggs and Ham and talked about the illustrator and author. We sounding out words like /am/, and we used pictures to figure out words. We wrote about camp. Next time we will work on Florida Alphabet/ letters, sounds, writing a complete sentence with a capital and period, and finger-spacing. We played a sight word game, I spy sounds. We also read aloud.