Mackenzee TS #14

Jake had gone through about half of the alphabet in an alphabet workbook by our last session. So we finished the second half of the alphabet with him tracing the letters and practicing writing them out repeatedly. He was really good at coming up with words that started with each letter. I had to help him when he came up with longer and more difficult words (like triceratops), but he enjoyed writing them out more when he came up with the words on his own. I had in my notebook the words he had wrote from our previous sessions. So I had him rewrite the four letter words we had gone over without looking at them.  For the most part he was able to figure them out and write them on his own. However, he kept wanting to put “u” for the “oo” in pool and cool, and I did find it difficult to explain to him why the sounds were different. They sound very similar when you say them out loud and he looked at me like I was nuts. He wrote them 5 times each though, so hopefully that helped him recognize how the word looks when he sees it again.