He Loves to Read!

Blog # 25

    My heart leapt yesterday.  All of the fourth, fifth and sixth grade students in our entire school were sitting around the edge of the walls at our school. They were very quiet, because they knew that if they were very quiet they would be dismissed to go outdoors for recess.  I was surveying the students and I saw one student (only one) with his head buried in a book. He was reading a large chapter book so intently that the fire bell could have gone off and he may not have known it.  I walked up to see who it was.  Keon; a student I had taught for three years in my resource room, because of his severe reading problems; was the student whose head was buried in the book.  My jaw dropped and I announce to the entire student body that it was so exciting for me to see someone who was devouring a book.  His current teacher simply said, “Keon loves to read!”  If I am dancing on a cloud all week, you will know why.