Wyatt was on time and ready to learn! I began with a review of the sound deck with visual and blending drills. The graphemes included the following: b,a,d,e,f,h,i,o,p.qu,sl,pr,sc,sp,st,ch. To strengthen phonemic awareness, we used Elkonin boxes to sort words with two and three phonemes. I taught Wyatt about the open syllable (a syllable in which the vowel is not followed by a consonant and makes a "long" sound.) Wyatt read example words of both open and closed syllables. He read the decodable reader, "My Wagon is Red." To conclude, we played a game of Phonics Dice with CVC words.