• Mom says: ‘He was reading before he could talk.’
By Sarah Koenig
Enterprise reporter
Scott Thomas loves to read.
The Cedar Wood Elementary fifth-grader reads after school, before breakfast, before bed, and sometimes when he’s supposed to be asleep.
“Sometimes if I’m hooked into a book, after (mom) leaves I’ll read in the middle of the night,” said Thomas. “I close the door to my room.”
Thomas has won the school’s Accelerated Reader award for his class every year since kindergarten. In the program, students read books and take tests online.
The more books they read and the harder the books, the greater the points they receive.
Thomas averages about three 200-300 page books a week, his mother Jeanni Thomas said.
“He was reading before he could talk,” she said.
Faced with a board of words or a stop sign, she would read a word aloud and he would point to the word she was saying, she said.
His preschool teacher was flabbergasted when she saw how advanced he was, Jeanni Thomas said.
“She had never seen anyone that young go off the charts,” she said.
“I like everything about reading, the good word choice, different authors,” Scott Thomas said. “It’s all the entertainment different books can provide, and they take you places as well.”
At press time, he was reading a book from the “Warrior Cats” series by Erin Hunter.
When not buried in a book, Scott Thomas plays video games, plays with his friends and does commercials for radio and television. He’s done commercials for Car Toys, Wild Waves and Microsoft.
He also takes ballroom dancing lessons.
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