My 5 year old won't practice reading

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My 5 year old who is in Year 1 (summer birthday) has learnt quite a lot of words and is above average ability in his class, a bright boy but he refuses to practice reading at home. He says it is boring and nothing will tempt him. I usually end up bribing/threatening/whatever works. Some people say I should just ease off and leave him until later in the year, but meanwhile his friends are racing ahead. His best friend is super bright and I think he feels he will never get to that stage, so what's the point. I don't want him to give up and get behind - I just think once they have cracked reading it makes everything else so much easier...

My DD was the same and I gave up trying to get her to read and just to read to her instead on the teachers advice. At 7 she has decided that she likes reading now and is keen to read as much as possible. Keep reading to him but don't push it will be fruitless.
I bought games such as word bingo and did phonics work with DD and when reading the school books played games such as finding the words which worked better. My DS did not read till he was seven fluently and is now top of Year 7, overtaking many early readers. Don't panic he is probably just not ready.

It doesn't help that the school reading schemes aren't all that interesting. There's only so much of Biff, Chip & Kipper that you can take! I'm sure I've read somewhere that ORT have a series of books designed to appeal more to boys - I'll see if I can find out.

It took older books for both my kids to be interested. I find some of the older ORT books really boring and both mine enjoyed the mid-stage Biff and Chip Magic Key books. Does he like factual books?

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