Have you been frustrated that all your son wants to read is the latest Captain Underpants book? Have you been hoodwinked into thinking that all he needs to develop his reading skills is to read any book no matter what the content?
Here is a great article from the Wall Street Journal on How To Raise Boys that Read. The author of the article, Thomas Spence, talks about the effects of video games and dispells the thought that boys should read and it doesn't matter what they are reading. He talks about the value of reading classic books that can still capture a young mans attention.
Of course that is another benefit of using Sonlight for your homeschooling. Not only is it literature based, but they have put together the best of the best - the classics, the ones you loved when you were a child. No fluff, no potty humor, just good literature which will, in my opinion, create a love for reading and learning.
After beginning his article explaining how great the difference in reading levels is between boys and girls, I love how he ends his article: "I offer a final piece of evidence that is perhaps unanswerable: There is no literacy gap between home-schooled boys and girls."
