Today our focus in language arts was decoding and fluency. Patrick built words using -ug, -it, and -in. He seemed to do fine with this, but would then randomly add a word that did not fit. For example, he added at to the -it column. I asked him to explain how he determined if a word fit. At first he said that they have to look alike and then he said they have to sound alike:) When we went back to check the words he was able to determine what words did not fit. Then I explained that we were going to be working on our fluency or "reading like talking" through repeated reading and setting goals for speed and word accuracy. We began with the decodable book My Pug Has Fun from Reading A to Z.com