My sons, who are twins, were similar maybe. They learned all of the mechanics of reading. They could read. They just weren't super into it the way their older s

My sons, who are twins, were similar maybe. They learned all of the mechanics of reading. They could read. They just weren't super into it the way their older sister was. Until I let them log in to World of Warcraft with me when they were around seven. When they realized there was a story to the game that they needed to understand and details to the quests that they needed to follow they suddenly cared about reading, they realized that it was a key that unlocked a lot of really cool things. They because voracious readers from that moment. Obviously there are pitfalls to bringing kids into an online community, if I could have played it locally I would have. But it didn't start out as a plan, it was sort of a whim and when I saw the effect I started to use it judiciously, as another tool in our tool box.