Richard was ready to participate when I arrived today but had a difficult time focusing. We broke the session up into multiple parts to keep from having to maintain attention on one task for too long. First, we worked on auditory discrimination of sounds. Richard's accuracy of /th/ at the word level in commonly used words such as "something, bathroom, birthday, etc" is around 50% so we spent some time listening to determine if a word I was saying had a /th/, /sh/ or /ch/ phoneme. He was able to tell me which group the word belonged in 80% of the time. However, when I used these words in a sentence he was only able to tell me if I produced /th/ accurately 50% of the time. This lets me know that his awareness to the sound needs to increase. Additionally, working on these digraphs assist in reading and spelling. Richard demonstrates difficulty using irregular plurals, especially those that end in f ( leaf- leaves, knife-knives etc.) He completed this identification task with 50% accuracy. We will continue to explicitly teach and learn these until he can generalize the rule. We read a short CVC story together. When Richard reads aloud it is very helpful for him to maintain his place using his finger or a pointer. We will continue with foundational reading/phonemic awareness to increase his confidence and decoding skills.