I had a very productive session with Cade. I began with alphabetic awareness: a to z sequencing, identifying vowels and consonants, defining a syllable, and building closed, open, and silent-e syllables. Cade improved his a to z sequencing to 1:09 which is excellent, very close to my 1:00 goal. I reviewed /er/, and Cade read a word list and spelled dictated words (jerk, her, herd, term). Next, he syllabicated two-syllable words: silver, temper, master, winter, number, sister, number. Irregular spelling practice included dictation of the following: said, was, want. I am pleased that Cade is beginning to retain these spellings. Sentence dictation: I hope it will thunder. Her sister is under the fern. I introduced /ir/; Cade read example words. To reinforce all syllable types learned so far we played a round of Crazy Moose. To conclude, Cade read a decodable book from FlyLeaf Publishing, "Scamp Gets a Bath."