Chat and get to know one another. disucss strengths and weaknesses. Sophie explained that she has dylexia and it's a real problem; she did not read before 4th grade. she's only read 2 books for pleasure in her life. I assured her that there are ways of working with this. That listening to books on tape/cd is a great idea. We looked through her binders and her benjamin email account. She forwarded all emails from her English teacher to me.