I began with a one-minute phonological awareness exercise, dropping one syllable of a two-syllable, compound word (Kilpatrick, K1#8, p. 129). With manipulatives, Libby is able to complete this task, a big improvement! I conducted visual, auditory, and blending drills with the following letters: a, m, s, f, I, p, t, n, d, c (hard), o, sh. Libby only missed vocalizing the sounds /â/ and /sh/. She successfully wrote the following sounds: /sh/, /â/, /k/, /f/. For the blending drill, Libby successfully blended cat, mat, sat, pat, nat, dat. This was a big improvement from yesterday's session. For spelling practice, Libby traced and wrote the following sight words: and, on, the. For oral reading fluency, Libbyand I read the book "Lin in a Tin." To conclude, we played a game of Phonics Dice.