Proud Mama

At the beginning of this year, Owen was really struggling with reading. He was well below where the "average" second-grader was supposed to be. So we decided a little motivation in the way of silly bands might help our reluctant reader. (See my previous post about sillybands and reading here - http://threeharmsboys.blogspot.com/2010/10/catalyst.html ) Those silly bands worked wonders for a while, but then we moved on to Bakugon, and most recently football cards. Each boy gets a football card for every 10 minutes they read. And they have been reading like gangbusters! Oh my goodness. Both boys read for three hours yesterday!

Today, a sheet of paper in Owen's backpack bore the result of all those hours logged earning silly bands and bakugon and football cards. All that reading at home along with some extra help at school pushed my below average reader over the benchmark for mid-year second graders! He has more than doubled the words per minute he was reading at the beginning of the year, and is reading with 99% accuracy. It has really been amazing to watch the transformation. I am so proud of my boy!