Rhett attended the first 30 minutes of the session. First, Rhett read the book that I was unable to screen share yesterday. He read well and seemed to enjoy the story. I reviewed the sound deck with visual, auditory, and blending drills. We played a sorting game to strengthen phonemic awareness, sorting two, three, and four-letter words into buckets. I taught a lesson on closed and open syllables. To conclude, we played Phonics Dice with CVC words.

Rhett worked for the second half of the hour. Wyatt had to get him out of after-care, so we got a late start. I began with a review of the sound deck with visual, auditory, and blending drills. I reviewed the following irregular words: to, you, and the. Rhett successfully read the list, but struggled to spell "you." After several minutes of practice, he got it. I had trouble loading the book for Rhett to read, so I dictated a sentence to write instead. We worked on sentence editing, correcting capitalization, letter formation, spelling, and punctuation. Rhett worked well; I was proud of him for remaining focused despite our session's technical glitches.

I called in at 2:30 as scheduled but the boys were unavailable.

The boys arrived on time and were set up properly on their iPads. Wyatt had to be reminded several times to sit in his seat and point his camera at his face, but once he settled down we got to work.

I presented a review of the sound deck with visual, auditory, and blending drills. In addition to the alphabet, the deck includes consonant digraphs ch, sh, th, wh, ph, and ck. Next, we played a sorting game to reinforce phonemic awareness at the word and syllable level. The boys co-read an oral reading passage called "The Vet." To conclude, we played two games, Phonics Dice with CVC words, and hang-man with one and two-syllable words.

Rhett and Wyatt joined me on time today. At first, there were a few glitches (Rhett didn't have an iPad stand, so the screen was bouncing around). A music teacher, Mrs. Smith, supervised the session and solved the problem.

I reviewed the sound deck with visual, auditory, and blending drills. The sounds included the alphabet (short vowel sounds) and consonant digraphs sh, ch, wh, ph, th. To improve phonemic awareness, we played a sorting game in which the boys had to determine how many letter sounds they hear in a word (2, 3, or 4) and sort the images into buckets. Next, they counted the syllables they heard in 2, 3, and 4 syllable words and sorted the images. The boys co-read an oral reading fluency passage about two dogs. To conclude, we played a round of Phonics Dice.

Today was the first session with Rhett and Wyatt together at school. Jay from the IT department set up the iPads at 2:30. The boys arrived at 2:40. The environment was very loud (I believe that they were in the front office; the teacher supervising also had another class and dismissal duty at the same time).

Once the boys were settled down, I conducted the following OG lesson: I reviewed the sound deck with visual, auditory, and blending drills. We did a phonemic awareness exercise using Elkonin Boxes. The boys co-read an Oral Reading Fluency passage called "The Bug" and accurately answered two comprehension questions. To conclude, we played a game of Phonics Dice to practice CVC words.

We brain-stormed the educational plans for the year for both Wyatt and Rhett.

I assessed Rhett using the Quick Phonics Screener and a spelling test. I will write up the results and send them as an email.