Joshua has now finished his Penmanship Reader 2, so we are ready to move on to the third unit of Basic Code from Phono-Graphix. Actually, I just pre-tested him on some of the words from the next unit of work and he can already read many of them, using his blending skills combined with the familiarity with the (new) graphemes that he has gained from casual conversation and from alphabet awareness activites we have done. This last Basic Code unit introduces the graphemes [e], [n], [v], [w], [z] and [l]. According to his reading demonstration today, he is already familiar with all of these graphemes except [v].His last penmanship task this week was tracing A full stop marks the end of a sentence. 
This is his very first rule for written English. He has it memorised; I told him the rule when he copied the first sentence in his Penmanship Reader #1 and he asked what the dot at the end was. Even though he does not have the reading skills to decode long words, such as "sentence", he was able to read "sen" and "ten", and he was content to be told what the entire word was. I helped him decode and blend the shorter words before he began tracing the rule on Wednesday. We repeated the sentence several times each day this week, while he was tracing it, and at the end of the week he "read" it to Jeff, including pointing out the full stop at the end. Yes, he knows and understands this rule. The next rule I will teach him (while he completes his third Penmanship Reader) is to capitalise the first letter of each sentence: "A capital letter marks the beginning of a sentence."
This is his very first rule for written English. He has it memorised; I told him the rule when he copied the first sentence in his Penmanship Reader #1 and he asked what the dot at the end was. Even though he does not have the reading skills to decode long words, such as "sentence", he was able to read "sen" and "ten", and he was content to be told what the entire word was. I helped him decode and blend the shorter words before he began tracing the rule on Wednesday. We repeated the sentence several times each day this week, while he was tracing it, and at the end of the week he "read" it to Jeff, including pointing out the full stop at the end. Yes, he knows and understands this rule. The next rule I will teach him (while he completes his third Penmanship Reader) is to capitalise the first letter of each sentence: "A capital letter marks the beginning of a sentence."And just for fun, we've been making letters with Joshua's Duplo railway tracks:
One of the highlights of Table Time this week was playing with stickers. Joshua has been loving his Dinosaur colouring book that his Grandpa gave to him recently. Each picture has a black line image for colouring accompanied with an exemplar image, already coloured. Joshua is loving the challenge of copying the correct colours with the correct amount of pencil pressure to make them lighter or darker.
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