Happy Summer!
School's out and the kids are home.
Which means brief entries or none
at all.
Two thoughts for summer reading -
Proximity
With my both my boys, I've
had some luck with product placement.
I put a book (instructive or appealing,
or with luck, both) next to them or
in a place where they are going to
be soon. In some cases, in the car,
I reach it back to them.
Here's the hard part - I say nothing.
They either read it or they don't.
The decision is theirs.
This sometimes works.
When I was a child, my Father insistence that
I read Kim kept me away from it from months.
When he shut up about it, I sought it out and
read it and decided I loved Rudyard Kipling
books.
Variety
My oldest son (the one with autism)
has to read The Hound of the Baskervilles
this Summer. He has challenges with
his working memory and
comprehension. He can read
a book aloud and be unable to tell you
anything but the number of chapters
and what page each started on. So
I'm trying the multi-channel approach.
Before we started, we watched book
trailers for it on the computer.
We're listening to it, he's reading it,
and he's reading the graphic novel.
He's also working on it in Extended
School Year. I'll let you know how
he does with it.
A typically developing child would probably
be heartily sick of the book by now.
But he seems no more reluctant than
usual to read it.
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