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| +5 | Getting Your Boy to Read More |
| | Link: |  | | Ages: | General Interest | | By: | Seattlegirl |
 If you are a parent to both a boy and a girl, you may have noticed that your girl is more likely to curl up with a book than your boy. Recent research shows that boys on an average, are one year behind in reading than girls. Guys read is the website of the author Jon Scieszka (author of Math curse) that has many tips and book recommendations to get your boy reading more. You can also download stickers, and posters and other cool stuff to make reading more fun for boys. The organization's mission is to "make some noise for boys." That is what I am attempting to do here. Comments Seattlegirl Nov 10, 2008 Thanks so much for your insightful comment, Claude. I will look into all the books that you have suggested.
Thanks again,
Arathi Claude Nov 6, 2008 I'd love to agree with mom7kids but Arathi S. is right with one exception, there are more and more books for boys.
My son is in 5th grade and sticks nevertheless to his comics and "sport illustrated kids" which I also recommend in addition of "Asterix and Obelix" (illarious and soooo well written even if translated), "Tintin" (mysteries), To add the cherry on the pie, you'll find in the Manga Y.kids (www.myykids.com) "great figures in history" the biographies of Gandhi, Marie Curie, Leonardo Da Vinci or the novels "Gulliver's travels" and "The treasure island". In the Edu.manga (dmpbooks.com), the educational series you'll find the biography of Ludwig Van Beethoven. If you are convinced and go for it you'll find the graphic classics, edition Barron's "the 3 musketeers" (half text, half comics, smartly done), in the saddleback's illustrated classics "the great adventures of Sherlock Holmes" (www.sdlback.com). And the beauty of all, Shakespeare that my son read without a blink (where he won't approach the illustrated simplified version for his age group), 3 different adaptation according to the tastes: Edition Knopf, based on the animated tales as seen on HBO "The tempest", Edition Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers New York, Graphic Shakespeare library "Macbeth" (there are others, don't worry) and Candlewick press (www.candlewick.com) "The merchant of Venice".
To conclude, I'll add a must to be read with your son to laugh with him, the 2 first volumes of "Al's world".
And, if the goal stays to have my son read books with an introduction, a development and a conclusion. Books with subject, verb, complement well written all along, the TEACHER got the last word! As long as they read, it (almost) doesn't matter what:)
Claude Seattlegirl Oct 29, 2008 They range all the way from preschool to teenage years. By about 5th grade (my son is in 6th) their interest in reading starts waning, is what this author says, and it is what I have noticed too. It isn't like my son does not want to read, but he enjoys reading factual stuff more than fiction.
A lot of school related reading is geared more towards girls than boys. And usually teachers, librarians (who are also usually female), and moms, are all pointing them towards books that probably don't interest them so much.
The author is just trying to create awareness about this issue. Our boys need,
1). More male role models
2). More material geared towards boys
3). And broadening the scope on what counts as reading.
So true, they do a lot by example. We are a family of readers too, and we keep encouraging our son to read; reading a car magazine also counts. momto7kids Oct 28, 2008 What reading level are these books geared? I have never had any trouble with my kids wanting to read (boys included), but they aren't very old yet. I think they do a lot by example, i.e. they see their mom and dad reading a lot; therefore, they tend to read too. Add My CommentReal Tips from Real People. Real Comments from Real People. Add your comment today...
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