I began with a phonological awareness exercise. Phonological awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate the sounds within a word and is predictive of reading success. Next, I reviewed the sound deck (cards with letters on them) with a visual drill; I showed Wyatt the letter cards, and he voiced the sound of each letter. The next exercise is the auditory drill; I said a letter sound, and Wyatt wrote the corresponding letter on the dry erase board. The blending drill followed; I showed Wyatt a series of consonant-vowel-consonant words (nonsense and real), and he sounded out and read the words. The next exercise focused on alphabetic awareness. Wyatt placed the magnetic letters of the alphabet on the desk. We counted them together to discover there are 26 letters. The first letter is "a" the last letter is "z." The letters in the middle are "m" and "n." Wyatt and I worked on sequencing the alphabet, which was challenging. Finally, we discussed that the red letters are "vowels," and the blue letters are consonants. Next session Wyatt will build CVC words.