August readathon: Progress and minichallenges

[Shay]

I actually have Incarceron and Sapphique on my shelves for him. I just usually read everything first. I'll move them up in priority.

My son hated the Hunger Games and The Lightening Thief series. He really hates fantasy/talking animal type books. The only two fantasy series he enjoyed were the Redwall series and Collin's other series, Gregor the Underlander. My son read the Redwall series when he was 6. So at 13, he can pretty much read anything. I think the last reading test he took in the 6th grade he "maxed out" the test- he tested at the highest level. (The grade level equivalent of college senior, second semester. Like 16.9)The school actually went to the district to ask if they had to administer reading tests in the future for his IEP's. He mostly like scientific/technical stuff. The only things he gets excited about is a new computer type manual- I think he can program in most of the computer languages (PC, not Mac)

[Tracy]

WOW Shay I am impressed! That is great! Cameron scores pretty high as well and I really don't see how because he hates to read. I have told him over and over that reading will help him in every class but it is kind of hard to convince him of that when he makes honor roll every semester. He knows he has to know how to read but he is not convinced that he needs any extra work.

Anyway, I have had Incarceron reserved at the library forever. Must be verey popular right now. My librarian told me I should read it after I read The Maze Runner.

[Shay]

My son too, hates to read. But, I homeschooled him in 1st through 4th grade. Unlike most kids, and I taught school, my son usually needs only 1 contact with a word to "have" it forever (know its meaning). So a word like chthonian- even if he sees it once, looks it up its meaning and doesn't see it again for a while. He'll remember years later what it means, even if it's not a word that's common and continually appears.

[Tracy]

That will be a very handy little trait for him in the future! Cameron is to lazy to look up a word but if you tell him the meaning he is pretty good to remember it.

I wish I could have had my kids home schooled, not that I could have done it but it would have been nice to have the one on one attention.

[Nancy H]

Shay wrote: "I actually have Incarceron and Sapphique on my shelves for him. I just usually read everything first. I'll move them up in priority.

My son hated the Hunger Games and The Lightening Thief series. ..."

That is great that he can do all of that. If he is very much into science, he might like some books that have a lot of science in them. An easy one to read, because it is a sort of 'combination' graphic novel and fiction is The Invention of Hugo Cabret . Another series that has a lot of scientific inventions in it is The Hungry City series, that includes Mortal Engines , Predator's Gold , and Infernal Devices (there may be more titles in that series, now - those are just the ones I know of).

I will try to think of some more that have a lot of science in them.

[Amy]

Shay wrote: "I actually have Incarceron and Sapphique on my shelves for him. I just usually read everything first. I'll move them up in priority.

My son hated the Hunger Games and The Lightening Thief series. ..."

How about Unwind and the Chaos Walking trilogy, which begins with The Knife of Never Letting Go

They were very good and futuristic/dystopian.

[Shay]

Thanks, Amy and Nancy. I'll check those out.