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<blockquote data-quote="barneysmom" data-source="post: 376122" data-attributes="member: 1872"><p>Lots of boys read late. The school made gfg13 hate reading -- but I could clearly see he wasn't ready as he struggled in grades 2,3,4,5. He would read Pokemon stuff on his Nintendo, and in the big "directories" of all the pokemon cards. He also enjoyed reading street signs, names of restaurants, all kinds of stuff while riding in the car. Labels on food cans at the store or while dinner's being prepared. Cereal boxes. Words on pennies, dimes, quarters and dollar bills. Helped him see how rich with words his world already was. </p><p></p><p>He at 13 is a good reader now. He likes manga and anime. I was recently at the library and saw a sign advising parents never to underestimate the value of comics in motivating boys to read, as others have suggested. Recently he has been driving his dad and brother crazy because he has closed-captioning on while he's watching all his shows like iCarly. But I think it's great -- he's reading! I think it's a hoot. Then I found out he had turned the closed-captioning on and couldn't turn it off. Oh well. It worked.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barneysmom, post: 376122, member: 1872"] Lots of boys read late. The school made gfg13 hate reading -- but I could clearly see he wasn't ready as he struggled in grades 2,3,4,5. He would read Pokemon stuff on his Nintendo, and in the big "directories" of all the pokemon cards. He also enjoyed reading street signs, names of restaurants, all kinds of stuff while riding in the car. Labels on food cans at the store or while dinner's being prepared. Cereal boxes. Words on pennies, dimes, quarters and dollar bills. Helped him see how rich with words his world already was. He at 13 is a good reader now. He likes manga and anime. I was recently at the library and saw a sign advising parents never to underestimate the value of comics in motivating boys to read, as others have suggested. Recently he has been driving his dad and brother crazy because he has closed-captioning on while he's watching all his shows like iCarly. But I think it's great -- he's reading! I think it's a hoot. Then I found out he had turned the closed-captioning on and couldn't turn it off. Oh well. It worked. [/QUOTE]
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