Patrick and I began reading with a game I developed specifically to help him with his decoding and word pattern skills. On a blank 6-sided cube I wrote familiar word endings from his previous repeated readings (-ug, -ig, -an, -ab, etc.). To play each player rolls the word ending cube and then a number die. Whatever the number rolled is the amount of words that player has to write with the word ending rolled (like a word family or word ladder). The first player to write 20 words wins. He really seemed to enjoy the game! Next, I previewed a few words from his new repeated reading passage. He decoded small and away. Then we discussed how even though both of those have little words within the big word only one is a compound word. He determined that away was the compound word. Next, he set a goal for himself in reading (0 mistakes in 6 or less reads). He accomplished his goal in the first read!!! He read the passage with 0 errors and 3 self-corrections. Patrick is improving his monitoring during the repeated readings. Lastly, we read chorally read the next chapter of his book from home.