Today, Dylan practiced blending words with the consonant, long a, consonant, silent e spelling pattern. Dylan benefited from reminders to look for the silent e to determine the sound of the a. He worked on handwriting and phonics by writing the name of pictures that either had the consonant, vowel, consonant or consonant, long a, consonant silent e pattern. We talked about the elements of a story. Dylan listened to 'Nate the Snake is Late' and was able to identify the beginning, middle and end of the story. Dylan worked very hard on his paragraph on spearfishing. He completed the paragraph today and chose a picture from the computer to put on the top of the page. He was proud of his paragraph and all the steps he completed to culminate in the finished product. He was pleased that he did very well reading a short book that utilized mostly short vowel and sight words. Dylan also worked on blending CVC words, unscrambling letters to spell one syllable words, sight words and word families in the 'Reading Eggs' program. We spent the last few minutes reading about fish with Preston.