Will began playing a game of chess with his brother, but was easily re-directed and accompanied me to a classroom to work on academic skills. He was initially tasked with a Dolch word assessment and asked to read a list of 25 common sight words. On this task, Will was able to read 14 out of the 25 words. He grew slightly frustrated with some of the 4-letter words, but these comprised only a few on the list, and he was not pressured to read them as this was a preliminary assessment. We then moved on to another task aimed at assessing his counting skills, sharpening his eye/hand coordination and fine-motor skills. Will needed to connect dots in numerical order to reveal a picture. This addressed developing his tracing abilities, strengthening dexterity (fine-motor skills), and building his confidence in numerical sequencing. Will was elated to find that he drew Minecraft figures, and easily and readily named them all. He completed 5 sequencing tasks; we saved the most challenging - counting up to 68, for our next session. Will worked on blending two or more letters and repeating each sound that each consonant would make. He made an effort to recognize the alphabet letters first, as directed and was encouraged to read the sounds left-to-right, and then recall and say the sounds quickly enough so as not to distract from the blending. We finished our session reviewing some of the days of the week, using a song with which to facilitate recall. Will was cooperative in working on the variety of academic activities with which he was tasked.