Patrick was excited to read from his dolphin book today. We each read 2 pages. I helped Patrick with word attack skills through out his reading. He is very interested in dolphins! Next I brought out another non-fiction book about dolphins and whales to explicitly introduce non-fiction and the features of non-fiction text. He was excited to look through the book. We explored the title page and table of contents. Patrick chose to read more about the killer whale and Atlantic Dolphin. We discussed headings and took turns reading. Then Patrick worked on writing small pre-primer sight word sentences. Patrick had trouble remembering some of his sight words. Lastly, Patrick chose a prompt to write about in his journal. He wrote one sentence about his favorite time of day.