What does your 6 / 7 year old boy read?

[BroccoliSpears]

Am particularly interested if it's something he can enjoy being read to him and also reading it himself.

gosh I can't imagine my 5.5 yr old reading a book himself..does it really happen?

another vote for captain underpants

yes it does, really suddenly .. it's very odd

happened to DS a couple of months ago .. I was so happy .. I read to him and he just wanted to keep going (it was Mr Gum) and he did

fab feeling when they get pleasure from it .. we're currently sharing the reading of 'The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe" .. I read a couple of chapters and he reads some after

can't see it with ds sadly

it's a struggle to get him to read his ort books a few times a week.

loves being read to though

My ds is 7. He enjoys reading the Cressida Cowell books, the Secret Seven, Captain Underpants, th Famous Five. He enjoyed the first Harry Potter, but the others were too difficult for him. Can't think of anything else at the moment - will get back to you!

Oh, and Match magazine for cover to cover every week.

ggirl .. DS didn't grasp reading until first term of Year 1, before then he was doing his best at phonics .. it really goes in jumps and plateaus .. he's now year 2

don't panic

it is a progression

they all equalise by 8 or 9 .. makes no difference how early they get it .. the best way to encourage a love of reading is to keep reading to him

nuffink. He can read perfectly well but chooses not to. He doesn't like any of the 'standard' boys' books. He gets football cards and reads ALL the stuff on his cards and puts them in his file. He also reads football programmes. I've tried him with comics but he's not ready.

I imagine, when the time is right, he'll pick a book and get on with it. He'll take football (non fiction) books out of the library and look at the pictures and the statistics in them.

I think he's a bit immature in a way and not ready to have that space in his head invaded by stories he's not into in a big way iyswim.

horrid henry
roald dahl
flat stanley

we read to him though

twiglet-that is encouraging ,hope for him yet then !?
Have just suggested we do his reading and met with "but it's not my reading day tomorrow so I don't need to"

My ds is a proper reader now - and enjoys it, BUT it was well on in year 1 before he cracked it, and the summer between year 1 and 2 before he read a book for pleasure. He is one of only 4 boys in his year 2 class that are really fluent readers - so really really don't worry about your 5.5 year old!

My 7 year old and his friends love joke books especially knock, knock ones. Red nose readers and Dr.suess books are good for this age group.

Just by the by, the first proper chapter book ds read all the way through under his own steam (when he was 6) was the first of the Grk books (Joshua Doder).

Mentioning this just because it hasn't been suggested yet.

My nearly 7 year old loves all Roal Dahl (how on earth do you spell that??) and a lot of Enid Blyton: Secret Seven, Famous Five, The Adventure Series, The Barney Mysteries. He is an avid reader and definately reading way above his age level so may not be the best example.

foxinsocks at the football programmes - it will not surprise you that my DS does exactly the same. He has a small collection of programmes that he reads and re-reads.

Otherwise he loves football annuals (got 4 for Christmas and studies them in great depth, even going so far as to compare and contrast. He has recently read the Horrid Henry rules the world book as he got that for his birthday. He loves Captain Underpants and has read all of the ones he's got many times. He is a bookworm btw. We have got a set of astrosaurs but not started on them yet. DH has read him the first Harry Potter but I don't think he would be ready to tackle one on his own. DH has also read him one of the Enid Blyton Secret of books and he has just started another on his own. I have almost finished reading him The Enchanted Wood. Previously we have done several Roald Dahls and Charlotte's Web, also some of the Michael Morpurgo books. He also shows an interest in some other non-fiction books, and, in particular, his atlases.

I think the Book People is a good place to go. The sprinter type books they have on there are quite easy going for less confident readers.

Twig how is your DS finding the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe? I have considered it for DS but since we must have 20+ unread books on his shelves I thought we'd have a go at a few of those first.

they are so similar aren't they bozza. I think ds's problem is that his sister is a voracious reader and both dh and I constantly have our noses in books or papers.

He loves newspapers - I can go to a cafe with him now and give him the sports section and he will happily read that. And he told me today that he understands what fiction is about but that he just likes the non fiction stuff better. Which is fine! This is the child who is scared of anything remotely unusual on TV and would still happily watch the Nightgarden if his sister ever switched over from CBBC or a film. So I think he'll stick to the non fiction stuff for a while yet which is fine by me .

Isn't it lovely, though, that all these boys like hearing/reading books.

(the Gaskitt books are also good, written by Alan Ahlberg - they are very funny too)

mine doesn't read them, but he likes to collect the whole series of a book and tick them off. i'm worried that he's becoming obsessed with having everything categorised. it's weird and i don't understand it.

It happens really suddenly. My ds was 15, and decided to read Ian Fleming, off he went. It is fun trying to find things for non reading boys (mostly boys) to spark an interest.

My nephew loves Russell the Sheep - bit like Shaun the sheep and anything to do with dinosaurs or pirates

Anyone know if Sir Gaddabout books are good?

Foxinsocks - my ds loves In the Night Garden too! On Friday nights dd and dp go to Scouts, and ds and I cuddle up together on the beanbag with picnic tea and watch it on BBC Iplayer. I's so sweet seeing him revert to being a very little boy again. It's so hard being a big tough 7 year old all the week!

I am genuinely curious as to what one could say on a gentle thread like this to get yourself deleted.

I'm a bit confused too because I was sure I read all the thread before I posted yesterday and didn't notice anything contentious at the time.

FIS - DS does love his fiction too, but not as much as the football stuff. We're a bit different in that DH does read but not loads, I have always been voracious and DD is only 3. She does have a rather bad habit of wheeling her pram over the football annuals as DS is laid on the floor studying them. This is in DS's own bedroom I might add.

Tonight when I got in bed with DS he said that he could hardly wait to read some more of Captain Underpants. "Err, yeah, me too darling".

I'll just add Jack Stalwart series as my DS1 (nearly 7) loves them. Also, would definitely big up non-fiction - DS loves anything to do with dinosaurs, space, the human body and atlases.

Just reviving this to ask;
does anyone know of a similar type series to the Gaskitts by Allan Ahlberg? DS loves these but I'm yet to find anything as good (they're good stories and very witty, with great illustrations).

these ones