Nicholas reviewed all 26 letters and sounds as shown on our alphabet cards. The uppercase and lowercase letters are shown together. He did a superb job! His only error was calling "Bb" a "Dd." I introduced the digraph "sh" and Nicholas read a few words with "sh." He printed his first and last name and identified the letters in each. Nicholas read his sight words. The only word he continues to have difficulty with is "the." He correctly read---I is for a at it go to and in me and see. I introduced the word, "look." Nicholas had been having difficulty using these words in sentences. Today, I did not even ask him to do this, and on his own, he gave me a sentence with all his words! I like Nicholas to practice printing some of his words, especially the ones that he can sound out and listen to each sound as he prints the letter. Nicholas read CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words from the "-at family," the -am family," and the "-ap family." He then read his "take-home" book, "Hap Can See." He then read a "sight word reader" titled. "The Playground." The focus word in this story was "the." The pictures in this story closely match the text. Even so, I would ask Nicholas to sound out words such as "jump," and to look at the first letter of a word to make sure it will match the first sound in the picture.