Gwendolyn began her session by playing a board game called Reading Skills Review: Time Machine. In the game, players stumble upon a time machine and use their reading skills to travel through time. Each player is to make their way around the board, reading and answering leveled story cards that propel them from prehistoric times to the distant future. The story cards cover a variety of reading skills including: main idea, context clues, read for detail, find cause and effect, form contractions, find synonyms and more. The questioning also covers several aspects of Bloom's Taxonomy. Gwendolyn loved playing the game and we were able to have several mini-lessons based around questions that she had difficulty answering. After the game, we played a version of Hangman where the words in question had to include blends and digraphs. Hangman is a wonderful game that not only helps students examine the letter patterns of the word but also encourages them to use context clues to identify words that might fit into a sentence when playing with sentences. Gwendolyn did an excellent job with Hangman and really enjoyed both creating and guessing.