Kids and reading

[Tirednhopeful]

Anyone have a kid who can read well but won’t? My seven year old just seems so uninterested even though they’re a great reader. I don’t get it! Will it change??

Sorry, that should say, my eldest absolutely does! Just not younger!

About 8-9

Mine loves beano comic too if that helps.

also loved baking at the time so would get them to read recipe to me as there was a “reason” to read. I didn’t make a thing of it but just said - what’s next on the list, I’ve got sticky hands can you just read it out?

Giving some longer term hope. DSis didn’t read, she just couldn’t see the point (perfectly capable). Went on holiday aged 15 with friends and appeared in my room demanding a ‘fun book’ so she had one. I handed her The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Floodgates open. She has a degree in English Lit and is much better read than me these days (I was the archetypal child bookworm).

@Tirednhopeful
He started to read the first Harry potters about 8 ish (yes he had to read the ones of the films he had seen)
through to about aged 10 ish for final one

Brilliant! Love this

Amazing, thanks!

Very normal IMO.

My DD was the same. Was the second in her class to become a "free reader", but took until the summer holidays after year 3 (so a couple of months after she turned 8) to finally find a series she wanted to read by herself (Daisy and the trouble with... books). Had tried sooo many before then!

What worked in the end was that I started reading it and she was so hooked that she had to carry on reading it after I'd read a couple of chapters.

She loves reading now, however is quite fussy and I do often still have to start a book for her as she finds it quite hard to get past the slowness of the first couple of chapters.