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?