The late start necessitated a truncated session for both boys. I reviewed the sound deck with visual and blending drills. To practice phonemic awareness, Rhett identified the sounds in two and three phoneme words using Elkonin boxes. The new concept was adding an "s" to make a plural word. The idea was reinforced by reading "This and That," a decodable reader by FlyLeaf publishing. Rhett wrote a sentence from the book and edited it with my help.