How to get a Boys to Read : Summer Reading Boys will avoid it…or will they? How to get your boy reading on a regularly over the summer.  My son reads and loves to read, but it was not always that way. He struggled until he was heading for the 3rd grade.   I will say this about my parenting style,  I am not above rewards (bribery) to get my child to do something if it is for there own good.  So don’t judge.   We get paid so why don’t our kids for a job well done.

The previous Christmas and all my nephew and nieces got a Nintendo DS.  My son did not… he cried…. all is friends also received a DSI. He was 7 almost 8 and I though he was too young to have a $150 toy, when he looses his shoes daily.   We decided also that my son will not get a video game system until he was reading fluently because that would be responsible.  OK  I decide and my husband went along with it.

So summer came,  he was not progressing on reading so I made a deal per-say with my boy.  Read a chapter book a week,  all summer long, and we will buy you a DSI at the end of the summer.

So he read,  read,  and read 1 book a week all summer.  He even read classic Peter Pan.

He is now the proud owner of a DSI

Here is the thing if he has a book he loves like any of the Percy Jackson Series.. he will pick up a book before he picks up the DS.  He actually get excited about reading and I have to tell him to go to sleep.

That summer he went from a beginning on 2nd grade reading level to beginning of 4th.. when he returned to school

Instilling a Love of books was the best thing I did all summer.

This year we need to work on writing.  So we are doing The  Summer of Writing, one story a week his reward a lego robotics oh and he still has to read …see the books I bought him?  he has already read 2

What are your thoughts? What method have you used?