You know how when you think something is really cool, you go and put a bunch of library books on hold about it? (C'mon, I know we've all done this. In our excitement we put a bunch of books on hold, and then we lose interest and don't end up reading them all, right?)
Well, Ezra was really interested in these Who Was (and also Who Is) books, so he put a bunch of them on hold from the library. And by "a bunch", I mean 74.
They all come in, and I ask Ezra what the heck he was thinking. (Of course I knew, as I have done this myself. Not to this egregious extent, but still...) And then I asked him if he was going to read them all. He said, uhhh. And then I said, I'll give you $10 if you read them all. (It was more of a dare, and wanting to see him follow through on all these books that he checked out, then actually wanting him to be externally motivated by money to read.) And he said, okay.
So, now, about one month later, he has read all 74 of these books.
Each book took around 40 minutes to read (so, to tally it up for you, that's around 49 total hours of reading). The books ranged from:
Who Was Alexander Graham Bell?
Who Was Jesse Owens?
Who Was Queen Elizabeth?
Who Was Leonardo da Vinci?
to
Who Was Seabiscuit?
Who Was Michael Jackson?
This also happened to coincide with the kids Reach for the Stars reading incentive program at their school, which I usually poo-poo and mock for being a way to externally motivate kids to read. But, judging by his numbers, he will probably end up being the Star Reader in his class. Peace is doing it as well and she went from not reading very much to reading (stupid fairy) chapter books during this reading incentive program.
Darn these results for messing with my educational ideologies!
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