Book and Print Awareness: He likes books. When given a few books, he was able to choose one and spend time on his own looking through it - very focused on every illustration and asked questions about what was happening. He was able to make predictions based on illustrations. He asked me to read it, so he is aware that the print is used to communicate what is happening. Identified front and back of book and where to begin reading. Some confusion between a letter and a word and was confused over the concept of 'sentence'. He enjoyed listening to me read about Henry Ford and was later able to relay some of the information to his mother. He often displays a concern about whether or not characters or toys are good or evil. For example; a toy truck with a mouth, a racing car, a picture of a king with a staff, aliens. He also often says, "That scares me", or "That freaks me out" or "That is creepy". Phonemic Awareness: Not aware that words are composed of individual sound units. Difficulty choosing first or last sound in a word, even his own name. However he was able to listen to a word that is segmented into phonemes and blend the parts together to make a real word. For example, the teacher says /ch/ /ip/ and he says "chip". Didn't recognize any words on a Kindergarten word list and said that every word that started with 'c' was cat or car. When shown only those two words together, he could not decide which was which. Snack and dojo: He chose the jump rope to play with as he said, "Is this a jump rope? We did not have these at my other school. Can I play with it? I don't know how to jump rope." I said, "It is tricky and you will have to practice" and I demonstrated. He watched, took the rope and jumped forward and then backward. He said he had never been able to jump rope before but I am not so sure.