Practiced practiced reading short e words. Prior to reading them, I had him put his new short e word families in alphabetical order based on the second and third letter. (ell, end, ent, est) He did this newly obtained with 100% accuracy, after just learning it last week. He read each word, identified the word family they belonged to, and classified them under the correct category. Following classifying them, he read each list by just changing the beginning sound of each word to make rhymes. The first couple of lists, he had to still sound out each letter, but he began to get the hang of the rhymes and fluently read them without breaking them apart. He read I Love Art Class and took a comprehension quiz on it asking him to identify the main idea. He began the prewriting stage of the writing process by generating ideas about what he loves (lacrosse) and came up with three details why. He recorded this information into a graphic organizer that he'll be using to draft his ideas.