What Are the Boys Reading Today?

Reading Assignments

My Loose Tooth by Stephen Krensky was Xander's book assignment for today. I noticed that some of the words were above his reading level, but our copy is labeled as a Step 1 book, which is appropriate for preschoolers to first graders. It seems the publisher also noticed this, because future editions were labeled as Step 2, which is intended for grades two through three. I picked up our copy at a thrift store, so it must have been one of the first printings before they realized it.

Regardless, he did well reading it. He's come quite a long way in his reading and recognizes quite a few words that surprise me. He's got a great imagination, but I just wish I could keep him from trying to ad-lib the illustrations while we're concentrating on reading practice. He likes to substitute his own version of the story while I'm waiting for him to continue.

Corbin is reading Bionicle Adventures #7: Web of the Visorak by Greg Farshtay. I'm pretty sure he's read this before and he's trying to sneak this one by me as a new book, but he enjoys them, so I'll let him slide. I'm just happy he's reading something other than Magic Tree House. I love the Magic Tree House series, and it will make a great one for Xander to take up soon, but the reading level is way below Corbin's potential. He really needs to be reading more challenging books. Even this one falls into a pretty juvenile reading level for Corbin's abilities, but it's difficult finding subject matter he's interest in with the books that actually meet his abilities.