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We continued to work on phonics skills while reading her Nancy Drew book. The student is making good predictions about the book as she reads. We discussed how to determine the meaning of words by finding familiar words within an unfamiliar one (i.e., disastrous) if context is not enough. The student often forgets to use the decoding strategies that she has, and she needs constant reminders to employ her skills. Mom reports the same thing, but she has noticed an improvement in the student's reading. The student is reading more at home, but she should be spending at least 20 minutes every night with a book. She should choose an independent book that is at her OLD reading level to help improve her fluency.

The student started the session with math review. She did 3-digit addition with carrying and was very successful. She also worked on counting coins. She has shown improvement on this but needs to continue practicing. The student read aloud from a book that I thought was going to be too difficult for her but she has improved so much in her ability to sound out unfamiliar words. Following the reading, she answered questions while trying to use complete sentences. Writing is not one of her favorite activities, so I am urging her to edit and add details. I am working on a spelling list with the student which includes 12 second-grade sight words. We have been working on this list for 3 weeks and she has mastered most of the words.

During our session, we discussed graphs and why they are great way to analyze data because they provide a visual representation of events. The student was able to understand the ways graphs are used. I was able to clarify that she can think of the scale as a number line and use the skills she has previously learned for reading number lines. She was able to transition to independently identifying the scale by the end of our session.

We had a splendid session. The student aced his spelling test and did a fantastic job reading. He's almost done with the book and ready to try out more challenging reading. I was very impressed with his reading fluency and comprehension.

We read and discussed a passage from the student's history text. The passage was on the development and characteristics of the Italian Renaissance. We discussed the student's research paper that covers the effects of the Plague. He plans on having his rough draft done before our next session. We will review it then.

We reviewed the student's worksheets. He got excited about having no spelling mistakes. The difficult part was tackling the writing prompt. We did a lot of discussing before he was able to begin. We also had a discussion about completing hard tasks.