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Creating stories with your reluctant reader

422 sats \ 12 comments \ @cryotosensei 1 Sep Education

It’s unfortunate but my five-year-old son doesn’t like to read. He enjoys having his mum read aloud to him, but when left to his own volition, he will rather play with his toys or watch TV or jump into ball pits or do jigsaw puzzles. Basically, anything but reading.

Well, I thought about the advantages of reading. It’s to help kids immerse in a world beyond their own and stimulate their imagination, right? Why not I get him to create his own stories?

So, knowing that his obsession these days is penguins, I interviewed him about his animal of the moment. Based on his responses, I pulled this story out of his consciousness.

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Subsequently, it was a simple case of typing the story on Wondercraft AI.

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He decided on a female AI voice, so I clicked on Producetrack. Within minutes, our story was turned into a podcast. You can even download it here if you want to: https://www.wondercraft.ai/e/I48DVMcV

Ta da! My son the reluctant reader co-wrote his first story with yours truly. He listened to the podcast three times, so that bodes well for a start. I will get creative with my expectations - listening to an audio book beats watching mind-numbing YouTube shorts anytime!

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89 sats \ 1 reply \ @BitcoinAbhi 1 Sep

Nice. I gonna try it

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 1 Sep

I’m sure your kids will relish this bonding opportunity with you xP

72 sats \ 5 replies \ @didiplaywell 2 Sep

One I was little I was fascinated by comics and my mom would regularly bought me some that came in long histories format. The incentive was such that I became fast at reading, and I realized of that in high-school, when I had to start reading more and I found I could do so well and fast. Even then I realized that it was because of my early devotion to comics.

I repeated the experience successfully with my little brother, who was having a very difficult time at studying. So I started buying him some long-story format comics of a style I knew he would like, and he did. Later he himself remarked to me that that helped him to get started at reading more easily when studying and get up to rhythm.

So my advice to you is to get comics that come in "book" format, so that they are long enough, and of a subject that also comes in books, so that your little will start with the comics, get used to read more and for longer, and then he will have the incentive to transition into the books himself out of wanting more.

I'm taking yours as well for the future, it's fascinating we can teach kids from a young age with this tools, the next generation will be super-human.

50 sats \ 4 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 2 Sep

Thank you for sharing your experience! Reminds me fondly of the Asterix comics that I used to devour when I was a child

69 sats \ 3 replies \ @didiplaywell 2 Sep

Oh I would have loved SO much to read Asterix comics back then, they weren't available here sadly but gladly there were some national authors of equal quality. Maybe your son will love Asterix too! Have you saved the comics? Maybe that passion helped you to be an avid reader too :)

50 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei OP 2 Sep

I threw them away haha.

I think he may pick up Dogman books. They are the rage among children these days

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell 2 Sep

Hopefully he will!! :)

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell 2 Sep

Noooooooo 💔

72 sats \ 1 reply \ @cyberduck00 1 Sep

This is a very clever way of dealing with their reluctance to read. By teaching your kid to write a story you are automatically telling him the value of reading. I haven't thought of that. Thanks for sharing your experience with fellow Stackers.