Patrick re-read yesterday's story, "What Has These Stripes?" to Yanuell. Some of his new sight words were very difficult for him to recall from yesterday,such as: these, what, other, etc.) He extended the book, by writing two additional pages. The book concluded with saying that "Some animals have no stripes." Patrick generated ideas of which animals don't have stripes, and chose two of his examples to include in the book. Following the authors pattern, he wrote a complete sentence for each, incorporating vocabluary and sight words commonly seen in the book. During discussion, he said "Pigs absolultey have no stripes" so I encouraged him to include that word even though he was shocked to be expected to include such a large word. We worked on breaking up larger words into syllables, and listening and applying one chunk at a time. He was successful with breaking up the words verbally, but much more difficult in writing. We reviewed his sight words, and determined if they were "jail words" that were breaking the law (sound/spelling rules) or following it. He was successful in identifying most law breaking words. He went on the computer and found images to decorate his jail word wall board in his classroom. This will be a tool Patrick can refer to during writing.