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We continued working on developing his understanding of phonemes using different tasks and games. He took a reading exam at school this past week. We used the material on this exam to direct the session, but did not cover the exam verbatim. Towards the beginning of the session I gave him a few spelling words (orally) and had him spell them out loud, this was for assessment. At the end of the session, I had him spell some of the words, and he gave all the correct spellings. The next session will be focusing on building phonemic awareness in the context of morphemes and morphology. That, once solidified, should greatly help his performance in reading and writing.

First, the student and I began the session by reviewing the list of 120 first grade high frequency words. Next, we completed his homework which was to determine if the noun was common or proper. Next, we reviewed the high frequency words again. We then read a level 2 book. We ended the session by playing variation of Uno. However, instead of the cards having numbers, there were high frequency words. The student really enjoyed the game and was able to quickly read the words in the game.

Reading comprehension to answer questions from text: using heading to locate information, finding specific information, summarizing text for answer.

Since the student doesn't have any deficits with his reading, writing, or comprehension, and his parents are just taking a proactive approach in that they do not want him to develop any issues in any of those areas, I have decided to work with him using a program that will increase his reading skills, as well as his comprehension and vocabulary skills. The session went very well. He was engaged and his parents were very pleased. I will go back next Friday for another two-hour session.

During the session, the student and I worked on some reading comprehension passages in preparation for the FSA Reading test that he would be having within the next couple of weeks, reinforcing all of the skills he has accrued in the past several weeks. Based on his work during the session, he was able to answer a majority of the questions correctly. He had a bit of trouble understanding the connotation and in-context definition of some words, which we reviewed by returning back to the passage and seeing how vocabulary and details reinforce the larger main ideas of the passages provided. I left him with one more reading passage to complete on the practice test we reviewed and encouraged him to read through the passage, answer the questions, and provide reasoning as to why he arrived at the answer.

We reviewed different videos of people taking the citizenship exam to identify variations of the questions. I helped the student learn new ways of answering the exam questions and familiarized her to different voices, tones, and speeds of talking. I left her with homework to watch a few more videos and take notes on unfamiliar words to go over in our next session.