In efforts to improve Will's phonemic awareness, or ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken words, I presented him with a hands-on activity involving short-A words. He was tasked with sounding out a series of three-letter words and then cutting and pasting the words under their corresponding pictures. I helped Will cut out the words, but he was afforded strategies to help him sound them out with decreased prompts. I then selected a "B" book from the library and afforded Will supportive guidance and strategies to help decode the words, several of which had 4 or more letters. I specifically selected the "B" book to read as Will, on occasion, will reverses the letters 'b' and 'd.' Will worked hard blending the letters. I was satisfied with Will's efforts today.