Kerri TS #14

Tonight Mohammed asked me how he could improve his spelling. I mentioned sounding out words which led us to a lesson on phonetics. I showed him some of the rules we went over in class a few weeks ago, and he seemed to find the phonetic patterns to be much more helpful than any other resource that has been suggested to him before. I pointed out that the rules can be applied to each syllable as well and encouraged him to break larger words down when writing and speaking. We ended the session with a few practice rounds with words in his vocabulary notebook. I quizzed him with the definition, and he identified the word and practiced spelling it correctly. To help him I asked him to break the words into syllables and identify the vowel sound based on the phonetic rules. For our next session we will continue to practice spelling and vocabulary.