My son has never been motivated to learn to read or write, he is now in Year 1 and his teacher has asked us to help him at home as his level of reading, writing and maths is very low.
Im more than happy to help him, and we try to do fun learning activities that I have looked for in the internet, that involve jumping, running, playdough and so on. But even with those he is still not motivated to play/learn. We try to do those activities even if he doesn't want to. We use descriptive praise aswell.
We haven't tried a reward system because I have read that this only creates extrinsic motivation, and doesn't work long-term, the motivation should ideally be intrinsic.
Im quite desperate, any ideas on how to get him motivated?
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How to motivate a 5 year old to learn literacy and numeracy
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Maia290 · 30/10/2016 10:46
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