Siena forgot to bring her word rings in but reported that she now knows all of the words that were on her rings. We looked at the second 25 high frequency words (HFW) and Siena identified correctly the words "too" and "as". We will begin our focus on the following HFW words from that list : "for", "all", "ball", "day", "play", "was", and "fun". I've also begun to look at her decoding ability. I administered a letter/sound identification assessment. She was able to correctly identify all the letter names. She was also able to identify all the consonant sounds however could not give me both the short and long sound for the vowels. That is an area we will address in our sessions. As Siena encounters unknown words in her reading, I am noticing that she doesn't attend to the initial sound. Rather, she uses the picture clues to guess at the word and doesn't verify if the word in print starts with the sound or if the word she guessed at looks right or sounds right. She needs to be encouraged to point to the words as she reads and "get her mouth ready" for the first sound of an unknown word. We will focus on phonics and decoding unknown words in our sessions. For word work today, we did word building puzzles and a rhyming game. I introduced a new story, "Rosa Gets A Pet". She seems to be enjoying our word work and is cheerful and happy during our sessions.