Nicholas recognized 25 letters and their sounds, using our alphabet cards. (We are working with the letter "Uu," so this card was not presented.) Both the uppercase and lowercase letters are displayed side by side on these cards. Nicholas then read all the "environmental print" cards. Each begins with " (letter) is for (picture beginning with that letter.) I have him point as he reads, since "is" and "for" are two of his sight words. We looked at the letter "Uu" on the alphabet card and figured out the sound by looking at the accompanying picture of an "umbrella." Nicholas watched a short YouTube video focusing on the "short u" sound. He then highlighted every "U" and "u" in the poem/song "U is for Up and Down" and printed an uppercase and lowercase "Uu." Nicholas correctly printed the uppercase letters he had difficulty with on his last assessment: M F G V D B E . He does still confuse the printing of "b" and "d," but this is not uncommon for a child his age. Nicholas correctly printed his first and last name and identified the letters in each. Nicholas read the following sight words: I is for a at it in. He works better with words that can be sounded out. He has difficulty with words that cannot be sounded out, but must be recalled...to the go. We then played "BANG," a sight word game. Nicholas read/sounded out "bat," "cat," and "fat," words from the "-at" family. Nicholas then read a sight word reader that focused on the word "The/the." The title of the story was "The Pet Store." He used pictures to help him read and he sounded out words such as "pet" and "cat."