Patrick practiced building words with letter magnets for the end blends, -st and -ft. We practiced adding -s to the end after the root word was built, as well as covering it up and identifying the root word. For ex:The word 'lifts' is very difficult to break apart all of the sounds to spell it properly. So he'd spell the root word 'lift' and then add -s and vice versa. We discussed the different scenarios for an author's purpose; to persuade, to inform, or to entertain. Patrick hunted through a non fiction book basket to select books that were probably written with the intent to inform. He discovered the following: Huge Animal Babies, Spiders, Lizards, Incredible Animals, Forests/Lakes, Deserts, etc. We read a section of Incredible Animals about the lemur to show examples of the author informing readers of new information. Following reading, Patrick recalled 2 examples, and acted out the movement of the information. He reviewed his sight words; help, will, use, where and very, and recorded them in his sight word book. He practiced spelling them without looking and was successful :) He independently read an informative article, Soccer, to practice reading his sight words in context and to be exposed to the genre nonfiction/author's purpose.