My ds (first grade) doesn't like reading AT ALL. He'd much rather work on any other subject. It's not that he doesn't love books and being read to, it's the mechanics of reading that are frustratingly slow to him. Saturday I decided to try an incentive chart (read ten books, get stickers, win a trip to the play center). I hadn't used this tool in ages and never for school or reading, so I felt silly for forgetting it until now! After I explained to ds he could earn a trip to his beloved Discovery Zone type play center, he proceeded to read 5 books in a row! Then on Sunday he read 7 more! He more than earned his trip, which he got today. (We're doing school Tuesday-Saturday as of this week, it works better with our overall schedule.) Just wanted to share something that made my week!
That is great. I am using stickers with Vicki's writing and if she does good for 5 days she can have $5:00.
Have you signed him up for Book It from Pizza Hut? He gets a free personal pan pizza each month he reaches his goal. YOU set the goal...it can be number of pages, number of books, whatever. I've set my girls' goal on the number of non-fiction books, plus Bible reading. I bet that'd be motivational for him! GOOD FOR HIM!!!!
:lol: Well, we have a mall! Didn't have one until 3-4 years ago. And we have McDonald's, if you like McD's... dh and I don't really, but ds thinks McD's is tops. We're in Eastern Europe. But we do have a great pizza place (owned by an Italian, so it's very authentic), so I can't complain that there's no pizza.
Actually, I could survive without Pizza Hut and McD's, but I doubt DH could make it without a good computer store, lol! I bet he'd read like crazy for a trip to McD's!
