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Encouraging teenagers to read

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IToldYouIWasFreaky · 12/11/2020 21:48

DS, just turned 13, has never been a massive reader. He used to have a habit of reading every night before bed but over the past year or so this has gradually declined to a point where he's barely reading any fiction at all. He'll read non-fiction. He's just finished Bear Grylls autobiography and he'll read books of facts, especially sports facts, things like Guinness Records etc, but not often and never in preference to his phone or PS4...
I know I am guilty of nagging him too much about it all. He's a bright boy, doing really well at school and he's interested in the world and good conversationalist. I just wish he'd read more! I was a massive reader as a child/teenager and learnt so much from books and I just don't want him to miss out.
Has anyone got any tips or book recommendations to get him back into it again? Or do I just accept that it's not his thing and let him get on with it?

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AThousandStarlings · 13/11/2020 22:32

Have a quiet word with one of his teachers who might be able to suggest a book or two that would really capture his interests. Something that he can't put down. My children's school use something called the accelerated reader/renaissance its a subscriber service :-( but it also has a non subscriber search function. If you know the subject/kind of books/level your son would like then you can search the database according to his interests. Also maybe try audio books in the car. My children love listening to books in the car (they have a long journey to school) and I sometimes use the time to play them unabridged books that would be too hard for them to read to themselves.... (Tolkien, all the narnias, dark materials etc). Audible is a subscription service but you can also pick up CD's from WHsmiths and Amazon etc which works out a bit less or 'borrow' audio from council libraries (without having to visit)

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