This post is a helpful answer to most of the worried parents who think their kid is not interested in reading. I too found many helpful tips from this post. Thank you for the very helpful post.

I thank you for this article. I really am interested on techniques on how to make my children like reading……but we are all struggling…..they are engrossed by the internet and gadgets…… i really need this reading. Hope i can divert their attention…..

I love this post. My older daughters seemed to just be naturals at reading, but my son is a struggler. I try repetition because it seems he is always needing to sound out the same words over and over. I love the idea of reading to siblings, I actually never thought to have him try to read to his younger sister, but I will now! Though he struggles, the AAR program has been a wonderful addition for us in helping him!

Thank you! Our youngest of five did not like to read. It usually ended up in a tearful session. Thanks to some of your tips, slowing down our sessions to more bite sized ones until he felt more confident, and letting him pick out favorite picture books to read with a buddy (a sibling, parent, or grandparent) he now enjoys reading and we have no issues completing our All About Reading lessons with enjoyment. Thank you for this program. It has been a blessing and I regularly recommend it to others. May God bless you and those that work with you for allowing Him to bless our family through All Reading and Spelling.

I’m so glad I purchased all about spelling over the summer. It has help my 7th grader tremendously this school year.

We have done “celebrate reading nights” where we enjoy ice cream while reading together as a family. Everyone (kids and adults) enjoys it.

We love reading together and listening to audiobooks. I am loving watching my oldest learn to read with AAR. Now he doesn’t have to wait for me he can pick up a book and read it himself!

I really like your tip to look for a variety of reading materials when helping your child learn to read. I think one cool idea is to help your child read books about the area you live in. Then, you can go visit the places mentioned in the stories. And probably get ice cream. Ice cream makes everything more awesome.

Such good suggestions! Making time to read and often choosing “fun” reads that are not a stretch helps my challenged reader. For the books that are a stretch (like Harry Potter), I let her read along with audio books or we took turns. My daughter who really struggled and could barely read a page of text until 4th grade now (8th grade) loves reading and can keep up with audiobooks like Hunger Games and read many books alone! Success!

I’m a new homeschooling mom, who has 2 children that think reading is just so, so. I’m looking forward to using these tips, to make reading more enjoyable for them.

My son definitely dislikes reading. I think it is a confidence issue. A lot of things have seem to come easily to him–math, basketball, riding bike–so when something is a little more difficult–reading, soccer–he wants to give up very quickly. Thank you for the tips here, and throughout this website.

Great tips…especially on helping struggling readers and motivating kids as they journey through reading. My 5 year old is expressing interest in learning to read, so I’m curious to try AAR products with her!

Hi Robin,
My 16 year old boy still won’t read. Everytime I give him an easy book like The Hobbit, I catch him playing with his phone or he invites friends over.

I hope these ideas work with my third grader granddaughter, she hates to read. It’s a shore to get her to set still long enough to read 15 minutes a day.

I love that reading motivates reading! I just wish we would have started read alouds when my oldest was younger!

Theses are all great tips to try. Right now I am struggling with a very, very reluctant 2nd grade reader. Unfortunately, he has been exposed to way to much technology in his brick & mortar school, which is why we are now homeschooling. He and siblings would rather play games (not exactly learning games) instead of a book to read. Hopefully I can utilize some of these ideas to reverse this.

Finding Child-Interest Books that are on-level can be tricky! After much labor, We managed to locate some fabulous engaging leveled reader “classics” pertaining to a favorite theme of our: cats! We located Jow Cowley Sunshine Books, Story Basket, Story Box, and Rigby PM, Rigby Sails, Rigby Stars. My kiddo couldn’t put these down, often reading on his own accord <3

My son was a reluctant reader. All About Reading and Spelling have helped us to overcome this. Although I thought the day would never come, he is finally beginning to enjoy reading.

I always have trouble finding books (outside curriculum), that my daughter can read. And I REALLY want to set up a reading nook for her… just have to find where!!

Thank you so much! Your curriculum has worked miraculously for our different learners. I have tried many spelling and reading curricula and I highly recommend yours!

I finally got my oldest son interested in reading when our local library got in a new section of graphic novels. He didn’t find the “comic” style as intimidating as chapter books.

When our former reading program was driving her batty, I just took her to the library and let her pick books that interested her. If the reading level was too high, I read them or helped. It took the pressure off though and now she loves the library.