Rhett joined as I finished my session with Wyatt and helped him read a connected text, "Jen's Best Gift." I began his session with a review of the sound deck with visual and blending drills. Graphemes included the following: b, a, d, e, f, h, i, qu, r, s, t, u, v, y, z, tr, bl, st, sn, cr, ck, ch. For concept review, I revisited the ng digraph, showing example words to read and dictating example words for Rhett to write on the dry erase board. Today's new concept was suffix -ed (pronounced /ed/) added to a baseword to indicate past tense. I explained the idea and showed example words for him to read. To reinforce the concept, I created a "spinning wheel" of example words using wheelofnames.com. Rhett read a connected text, "A Cricket Sings," which provided a review of ng endings, R blends, and the FFLLSSZZ spelling rule. I dictated a sentence for Rhett to write ("I spot a cricket in the grass."), and I guided him in editing the sentence using the CAPS mnemonic (capitalization, appearance, punctuation, spelling.) To conclude, we played a game of Phonics Dice to practice reading closed, open, and vowel-consonant-E syllable types.