Damn! That Cheetah Boy Can Read!

We were chatting with Baxter on Friday night about his day. We knew his class gets together with their 3rd grade "reading buddies" on Fridays. The point of this is to give the big kids a chance to practice their reading and for the younger kids to be inspired to start reading themselves. Baxter happens to have two buddies because a child in his class moved so there was a "left over" 3rd grader. It's clear that he really likes these two big boys. I've been curious about how this has been going lately, because he himself is actually reading 3rd grade level books.

So Baxter told me what they had read to him that day, and I asked him, "Do they know that you can read, too?" "I don't know," he mused. Then I asked, "Well, do you ever read to them, or do they just read to you?" He said, "They read to me. I never read to them."

Then he paused and said, "But if they have trouble with a word, I help them out."