Ashley began her session by playing a word building game called Bananagrams. The object of the game is to build as many words as possible. Ashley and I worked on different phonics rules to help her successfully build words. She was very receptive to learning some helpful phonics "tricks" to remember how different letters sound when put together. After playing Bananagrams, Ashley and I played Cause and Effect Alpine Adventure. The object of the game is to travel around the board (an alpine ski resort) answering reading comprehension cause and effect questions. Ashley and I reviewed what the cause and effect relationship is and came up with several examples of it in "real life" situations. She did well decoding unfamiliar words when reading the passages and was able to solve many of the cause and effect relationships.