I chose this book to read with my student tonight. She did very well with it. It is a predictable book with great pictures for context clues. We did paired reading and she was able to read most of the words by herself. I feel like we are making great progress. Dr. Rivera even recorded our reading session tonight so that we could observe some reading strategies I used.

One thing that I have noticed is that my student has a hard time focusing and staying still after 35 minutes of work. So tonight I decided to do the reading activities before the letter and word recognition activities. Unfortunately, the recording was made later in the session so you will notice that she is squirming and can't stay seated. We had fun reading this book, though, and it was easy enough to give her much success in reading.

Tonight's quote is a Sioux proverb: A people without history is like the wind blowing over buffalo grass. As I said in class, my schema for buffalo grass is limited to sword grass and maybe rice and wheat before the chaff. I think that this quote means that people without history have nothing to identify with or to anchor themselves to so like the wind, they don't stay still long enough to do so, they just touch the surface and move on.