But most kids who enjoy reading will choose challenging books for themselves.
I'm thinking that personality might come in to play with this reading level issue. My kiddo, until he got in an appropriately challenging school setting, would not challenge himself. He would pick the books in the room during silent reading time that were way below his level, read them through in a matter of minutes and then pretend he was reading if the teacher looked. He told me he liked to daydream and/or pay attention to what the troublemakers were doing. We had to work hard at that school to get DS appropriate reading materials. I happen to have a child who was pretty lazy...
Now his classroom is full of kids all reading at high levels, and they feed each other's interests in books.
