When I was a teenager I used to coach kids who had reading problems. My first action was to get them a library card and let them pick out something they were i

When I was a teenager I used to coach kids who had reading problems. My first action was to get them a library card and let them pick out something they were interested in; snakes and adventure stories were common choices. And my advice to parents since has always been to encourage them to read anything they wanted first, the better a person can read the less difficult tedious books (school work, etc) becomes later. Reading is a skill, and like any skill it requires practice. The more enjoyable the practice, the more they'll do.