I began with a review of the sound deck with auditory and blending drills. The sound deck included the graphemes from the last session plus -nt and -nd. I revisited phonemic awareness with a syllable dropping exercise for concept review, using a PowerPoint slide with movable colored squares as a visual aid. For example, "say photograph; now say photograph but don't say photo." Dropping one syllable was a difficult concept for both boys; I will incorporate it every session until they achieve mastery. For the new idea, I introduced the signal vowel rule and the "soft" sound of c. When followed by the vowel e, i, and y, c makes its soft sound /s/. We read example words together )cent, race, ice, rice, cell) and reinforced with a wheelofnames.com list of words. The connected text was a decodable book, "It is Halloween." I dictated the sentence, "It is fun to pick hats and masks!" for the boys to write and edit using the CAPS mnemonic.