Child do not like to read books

[babymama02]

buy books with pictures

[concern2]

babymama02:

buy books with pictures

:goodpost: If your child is very much a visual person, he may not fancy seeing too many words on the page. Pictures will certainly help enhance the reading experience. My DS is still choosing books with pictures at P2 and is put off by books filled with only words. There are some readers that come in series which builds up in length of story (number of pages) without squeezing in too many words per page. Indirectly, your child is trained to read longer stories without him/her realizing it.

[Oppsgal]

concern2:

babymama02:

buy books with pictures

:goodpost: If your child is very much a visual person, he may not fancy seeing too many words on the page. Pictures will certainly help enhance the reading experience. My DS is still choosing books with pictures at P2 and is put off by books filled with only words. There are some readers that come in series which builds up in length of story (number of pages) without squeezing in too many words per page. Indirectly, your child is trained to read longer stories without him/her realizing it.

My kid likes to run about until we trap my kid in front of us and placed the book infront. Or play with stickers.

Will try speed reading, though not sure can make my kid read with fast reading. Still got to point at each word.

[concern2]

Oppsgal:

concern2:

[quote=\"babymama02\"]buy books with pictures

:goodpost: If your child is very much a visual person, he may not fancy seeing too many words on the page. Pictures will certainly help enhance the reading experience. My DS is still choosing books with pictures at P2 and is put off by books filled with only words. There are some readers that come in series which builds up in length of story (number of pages) without squeezing in too many words per page. Indirectly, your child is trained to read longer stories without him/her realizing it.

My kid likes to run about until we trap my kid in front of us and placed the book infront. Or play with stickers.

Will try speed reading, though not sure can make my kid read with fast reading. Still got to point at each word.[/quote]No, the idea is not to make your kid read faster. Imagine if his mind is racing and you make him sit down and point to each word, \"Peeteeer and Jaaaanee....\"
He'd be shooting off again. It is our speed in reading the story so he gets the CONTENT quickly, within seconds, that it helps to capture his attention. Once you get his attention with the content, you should be able to extend his attention span on reading (just thinking only. let me know if it works )

[fredericwilsomes]

well according to my kid, hes reading the book named as the \"Animal Horn\" many early hornbooks were made by printing letters onto paper or vellum (animal skin) – both expensive materials at the time. To protect them, the letters were covered with a layer of animal horn like cow horns, https://hornsavvy.com/category/sheep-horn/, goat etc so thin that it was see-through. This horn was fixed to a wooden or leather base, which was known as a hornbook. Sometimes the ‘books’ were made from metal, ivory, or bone like this one, but they still kept the same name. Some were even baked out of gingerbread to tempt children to ‘swallow what they read'

[Zeal mummy]

My children were all eyeing my books. Let them see you reading.

[chasingrainbows]

I am facing the same problem with my boys. #1 likes to read sci-fi and non-fiction books like Nat Geo and Sci based books. He occasionally reads fiction books but his choice and interest is very limited. I tried enticing him with lots of different titles but he dislikes most of it. He loves comics and will pore over his Beyblade comics over and over again though.

[sharonkhoo]

chasingrainbows\" post_id=\"2022610\" time=\"1620177265\" user_id=\"160135:

I am facing the same problem with my boys. #1 likes to read sci-fi and non-fiction books like Nat Geo and Sci based books. He occasionally reads fiction books but his choice and interest is very limited. I tried enticing him with lots of different titles but he dislikes most of it. He loves comics and will pore over his Beyblade comics over and over again though.

He's still reading, so I wouldn't worry. Storybooks are not the only form of reading. And comics are not necessarily a bad thing as long as he is also reading other things (not necessarily fiction). It is a failure of the PSLE compo paper that it does not allow truly imaginative and creative writing, and your son may hate the things he has to write for school compos. But that goes for a lot of kids.

[zac's mum]

chasingrainbows\" post_id=\"2022610\" time=\"1620177265\" user_id=\"160135:

I am facing the same problem with my boys. #1 likes to read sci-fi and non-fiction books like Nat Geo and Sci based books. He occasionally reads fiction books but his choice and interest is very limited. I tried enticing him with lots of different titles but he dislikes most of it. He loves comics and will pore over his Beyblade comics over and over again though.

If u happen to have a Kindle e-reader, search for Beyblade and there are some fiction books that will come up:
https://postimg.cc/QBRD5ysZ

My boy was exactly the same as you describe. He was into both Beyblade & Minecraft. I bought some hard copy Minecraft story books & he liked them. One day he searched the Kindle store for Minecraft e-books and he was hooked into the Dave the Villager series. Those are good adventure stories & the language is good. He picked up plenty of vocab from those books. His English improved by leaps & bounds after that. Not sure about the Beyblade series but u can take a look.

If he is open to bedtime stories & parent-child bonding time, u can try reading aloud to him at those times. Many of the stories (including Harry Potter series) end the chapter with a cliffhanger. He couldn’t bear to wait 24 hours till the next night for the next chapter, so he would pick up the e-book himself after school & continue reading on his own.

He devours such story books, several per day & his reading speed is faster than an adult’s now. His general English (Paper 2) is no problem as he learns all the sentence structures, grammar, contextual clues etc simply from voracious reading of such adventure books.

However, not much help for Compo (as slmkhoo has said). However, when I passed him some good model Compos and a good-phrases book to read recently, he was very keen and kept commenting: “Wow, this phrase is really good! I think I’ll use that...

Jia you! I think the trick may be to find story books that are linked to his interests.

[sharonkhoo]

zac's mum\" post_id=\"2022630\" time=\"1620182436\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=2022630 time=1620182436 user_id=53606]
...However, not much help for Compo (as slmkhoo has said). However, when I passed him some good model Compos and a good-phrases book to read recently, he was very keen and kept commenting: “Wow, this phrase is really good! I think I’ll use that...

Jia you! I think the trick may be to find story books that are linked to his interests.[/quote]

A little OT, but I want to comment that even reading a lot of fiction doesn't necessarily help in PSLE compo writing. My daughter read a lot of fiction, and actually liked writing stories. She was totally aghast when we discovered all the dos and don'ts that govern PSLE compo (she only started preparing in late P5 as we were living overseas). And this was under the older syllabus where there was no \"essay\" option which she might have tried. We had a lot of moaning and groaning (from me as well as her!) before we devised a \"formula\" that kind of worked for us. And I promised faithfully that I would NEVER require her to write another compo under those constraints once the exam was over. And I've kept my promise!