Getting Boys to Read

Written By: Albert Mohler  |  Posted: Wednesday, October 27th, 2010

There is ample documentation to prove that boys are falling behind in reading skills at virtually every age level. In many cases, boys are semi-literate at best, and many never develop adequate reading skills. They never know the pleasures of a book.

Writing in a recent edition of The Wall Street Journal, publisher Thomas Spence offers helpful advice and insight in "How to Raise Boys Who Read." After expressing appreciation for the fact that many authorities and parents now recognize the problem, Spence asserts: "The bad news is that many of them have perfectly awful ideas for solving it."
He writes:

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