I began with a review of the sound deck with visual and blending drills. Graphemes included b, ur, di, it, u, x, it, x, p, qu, er, sh, wh, ck. Words on the blending board included fern, tern, stern, turn, churn, spurn, bird, gird, third. Wyatt syllabicated and decoded compound words, including sunset, bobcat, inlet, Batman, pigpen, catnip. This concept was a review for him; it is so encouraging to see his confidence in reading "big words" increase.

I taught or as a new concept, demonstrating where it occurs in a word and reading example words (fork, corn, for, store, orb). Wyatt read a decodable text, "The Sunset Pond." I dictated a sentence for him to write and edit (Bud is the best dog!)