(Jon picked a picture of a giraffe for his creative writing session. Jon’s teacher wrote: “Breakthrough day! I insisted Jonathan give the giraffe a name. He struggled with it, greatly distressed. It was like watching a computer short-circuit. I thought for sure he would crash because the information couldn’t be located. It took about 20-25 minutes for him to finally give me a name, but then seemed to understand “making things up”, hence the creative process begins. The rest of the story took about 5 minutes, (with) leading questions …”)

I love seeing graf. I want to call her name Lady Cook. She is drinking water. I want to visit Lady. I like to do spelling with her. It will be fun. Lady woued liek to spell grass. I am going to spell read.

Jon