[ninergold3]

Our youngest son is 9. We encouraged him to read by providing things that he was interested in. When he was 3 he would sit next to me on the couch while I read the Sports page. At first I would point out the names of our local teams. Then we moved onto cities where they played - descriptions of plays (touchdown - home run - single, etc). He picked up reading very quickly.

He has read through a couple different book series and has his own subscription to SportingNews magazine.

One can't depend on the schools for everything.

[Publius]

Almost 30 years ago I dated a divorcee who had two boys, age 6 and 8. I got them into reading classic science fiction, and it got them into the habit of reading.

Moving forward three decades, one went to Cal Tech and is a scientist, and the other went to USC and became a chemical engineer.