As I have mentioned before ,I chose to homeschool my youngest 3 years ago after he completed elementary school as a struggling reader without good phonetics or decoding skills. He is super smart and was getting by with guessing synonyms for words based on other content in the sentence and was pretty good at it. I spent our first year on a remedial phonetic program that was geared towards third graders to adults. It was thorough and a perfect match for his intelligence and love of words, he has a great vocabulary. He has been fighting me on reading books despite his new skills and capabilities ,but I have been pushing hard, knowing that with success his confidence would grow.... That's the backstory and now to the point of my overwhelming joy that has brought me to tears. Last night at about midnight he got back out of bed to tell me a part of the story he is reading that was an important point. He had been in bed thinking of this and couldn't get it out of his head. This is monumental as it is the first time he seems to be connecting to a book as before its just been an assignment he did because I made him. He was smiling ear to ear when he was telling me. The book is The Giver by Lois Lowry, an age appropriate book his brother read in advanced English at this age! From being 3 years behind to this!