Doodle

I have been working hard on getting my students to be able to sound out words and learn some high frequency words.
I have learned something about kids this week.  They love stickers and they yell the word they think it is with some serious conviction.

So, yesterday I had a group of three students in the library with me.  We had their reading books and I would read the story to them.  I was stopping on "random" words and the first kid to tell me the word gets a sticker.  One student had his knees on the book and was staring intently at me.  I had to tell him, "I don't have the words written on me, you have to look at the book".  He starts to get a bit perturbed since one of the other students is getting a good amount of stickers.  Here comes a major sigh and then I have to remind him that the other student is following along, that is how he is getting all the words.  This students is bound and determined he is going to get a word.  He stares intently at the book and I stop at the word "of".   He shoots his head up and yells "doodle".  I tell him "no, that is not doodle, that is of".  We continue on and I stop at the word "the" he shoots his head up and yells "can", again I tell him "no, that is the".  We continue on and I stop at the word "to".  He shoots his head up and yells "doodle".  I can no longer take it and I just start laughing.  I tell him "no, this story does not have doodle in it".  Needless to say I broke my teacher mode and then proceeded to crack up at a few other words the kids were yelling out.  The kids laughed with me, but I have a feeling they did not really know why I was laughing.