I began with a review of the sound deck with visual, auditory, and blending drills. The graphemes were the same as the last session with the addition of oi. The words on the blending board included coin, loin, groin, join, jean, mean, lean. I introduced oy as a new concept, explained the placement in words, and read example words. To reinforce the concept, Wyatt read a list of words on wheelofnames.com set to holiday music which was fun. We co-read a decodable book, "Fir Tree Circus." I am so pleased with Wyattt's progress. Great job!

I began with a review of the sound deck with visual and blending drills. The sound deck was the same as the last session; words on the blending board included wait, wail, waif, waist. I introduced the grapheme oi as a new concept. Using PowerPoint slides, I demonstrated the placement in words, and Wyatt read example words. We co-read a decodable book, "Gull Talk."

I began with a review of the sound deck with visual, auditory, and blending drills. The grapheme deck was the same as yesterday; phonemes reviewed were /er/, /ar/, /or/, /A/, /E/. The words on the blending board included beak, peak, speak, spork, dork, fork. Wyatt was eager to play a game, so we played Phonics Dice with CVC words. He read a chapter of the decodable book "The Green Fern Zoo: River Otters."

I began with a review of the sound deck with visual and blending drills. The graphemes for the visual exercise were the same as the last session. For the blending board, I focused on the vowel team ea and vowel-consonant-e words (bean, mean, clean, clon, clone, drone, stone.) I introduced the irregular word "said" as a new concept. Wyatt read the word, and we discussed the irregular part of the word (ai). He wrote the word ten times while verbalizing the spelling. He read a chapter of a decodable book, "The Green Fern Zoo: Termites." His decoding was excellent today!

I began with a review of the sound deck with visual and blending drills. For the blending board, I focused on the vowel teams ai, ee, and ea with the following words: bail, mail, pail, peel, wheel, heel, heal, meal, steal, real. Wyatt has been reviewing "sight words" in class. I assessed his progress using the Fry word list; he correctly read 55/63 words. This information will guide my instruction. He read a chapter of the decodable book "The Green Fern Zoo: The Reptile Room."

I began with a review of the sound deck with visual, auditory, and blending drills. Wyatt's ability to identify the multiple spellings of long vowels is improving. I focused again on the R-controlled vowels for the blending board and saw a slight improvement in his decoding. We played a game of tic-tac-toe with vowel-consonant-e words. We co-read the decodable reader, "The Green Fern Zoo: Groundhogs." While we waited for Rhett to arrive, we played a few "hangman" rounds, emphasizing identifying syllables and vowels.

I began with a review of the sound deck with auditory and blending drills. Wyatt correctly recalled 4/4 taught spellings of /A/, 2/4 spellings of /E/, 2/3 spellings of /f/, 3/3 spellings of /k/, and 2/2 spellings of /w/. I taught the vowel team oa, identifying where the grapheme is found in a word. Wyatt read example words. We co-read a chapter of the decodable book "Green Fern Zoo: Things with Wings." To conclude, we played a game of tic-tac-toe with various vowel teams.

I began with a review of the sound deck with visual and blending drills. I re-visited R-controlled vowels on the blending board and with a board game as Wyatt is struggling to generalize the concept. He read a decodable text, "Mandrills" with excellent prosody.

I began with a review of the sound deck with visual and blending drills, using the same graphemes and phonemes as the last session. For the blending drill, I focused on words with r-controlled vowels as Wyatt is having difficulty generalizing the concept. Wyatt read Chapter 2 of a decodable book, "The Green Fern Zoo."

Wyatt was a little late to the session. I began with a review of the sound deck with visual and blending drills. Blending board words included start, star, mart, meat, cheat, treat. Wyatt read a decodable book "The Green Fern Zoo."