I began with a one-minute phonological awareness exercise. Phonological awareness is the ability to hear and manipulate the letter sounds within words and is highly predictive of reading and spelling ability. Next, we worked on alphabetic awareness. Eliana learned that there are 26 letters, and identified the vowels and the consonants. She sequenced the alphabet in 4 minutes 34 seconds; my goal is that she can accomplish this in one minute or less. I taught her the definition of a syllable (a word or a part of a word with one vowel sound). This will be important as she learns to syllabicate unfamiliar words. I conducted visual, auditory and blending drills with all of the letters and digraphs (sh, ch, th, etc.). These drills require Eliana to both decode and encode (read and spell). I taught silent E as a new concept and dictated sentences for Eliana to write and edit using the acronym CAPS (capitalization, appearance, punctuation, and spelling). It is my goal that Eliana will practice this edit strategy every session until it becomes automatic. To conclude, we co-read several pages of Junie B. Jones. I notice that Eliana is interested in learning cursive. I will incorporate this into our session and send practice pages home with her to practice with Ms. Pat.