One of the greatest concern I have with Little Boy in the GEP is the extensive reading required by the curriculum. Little Boy has no patience to read chapter books and long novels. His favourite books are The Adventures of Tin Tin and Diary of the Wimpy kid or any book with little words and lots of pictures. So, imagine the 'heart attack' I had when I chanced upon the P4 reading list for the Extensive Reading Programme (ERP). 60 storybooks in the reading list! It was a bit of a relief to know that the students are not required to read every book in the reading list. However, I still need to get Little Boy to read some and I gather it's best to be done during the holidays when he has much free time on his hands.
After a trip to the library and pulling out some books from our own bookshelf, here's the pile for Little Boy's reading 'pleasure'.
As expected, Little Boy moaned and groaned the moment he saw what I had in store for him. To motivate him to read, I exempted him from doing his regular Maths, Science and English assessments. That thrilled him a little and he did start reading immediately. It didn't matter to me that he went for the thinnest book first. His wonderful elder sister (who is 2 years his senior) 'accompanied' him by reading the same book he's reading and, together, they did a character mind map on this particular book 'The Cat Who Went to Heaven'. Though there were some disagreements while doing the mind map, they still had much fun working on it.
It's great having the siblings discuss the books they had read and Little Boy has slowly warmed up to the idea of reading chapter books. Till date, Little Boy has finished reading 4 books from the pile and is currently into his 5th book. Looks like he won't be able to finish reading all the books by the end of the holidays but that's fine with me as this is already a great achievement for a boy who dislikes reading.
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