reading to sleep.

grandma bought justin a new book and boy was it a good one. it is entitled Leven Thumps and it is a fantasy book for ages 10 and up. It is the longest book Justin ever attempted at 384 pages. Although Justin is an avid reader he always seems hesitant to tackle a book of such length. However, he was hooked from the first page and we would find him reading it long into the night. We worked on Justin's summarizing skills as he would tell us about it each morning (he has a habit of wanting to basically re tell the story word for word as he might miss telling us a really important part!!) In one weeks time he finished the book and took the accelerated reader test on it at school. the best part?? grandma bought him book 2 this week and he just started. I love seeing a child of mine all passionate about getting into a book just like I do. Makes me all happy inside.