I began with a one-minute awareness phonological exercise (deleting one syllable in a compound word). Libby is getting the hang of it! Next I conducted visual, auditory and blending drills (15 letters and one digraph). Libby missed /â/, /ô/, /sh/, and /d/ but voiced the other sounds correctly. When asked to write the letter that makes the sound, she correctly wrote a, o, d, s but missed sh. She struggled with the blending drill; while she could read the word "cat", when I substituted the initial sound with m, b, p, etc, she was unable to read the word. Moving onto spelling, we reviewed the word "and" and added the word "on". We made the words on paper plates with sand, creating a multis-sensory experience. To conclude, we read a Mo Willem's book, "The Pigeon Wants a Puppy." The remainder of Libby's session was dedicated to her parent-teacher conference.