I want some advise about encouraging kids to be interested in reading?

Read, read, read. Read in front of him, read to him. Turn off the TV and have “reading time”. Everyone in the family should be reading (or looking at books) during that time. Don’t make it seem like you’re trying to teach him something important, just that it’s an enjoyable thing to do.

Take away the television!

Turn off the TV. You are the parent, and have control over how much time a pre-schooler spends watching it.
Take him to the library, to book stores, and to storytimes. Have lots of age-appropriate books available to him at home. Model what it looks like to enjoy reading- let him find you curled up with a book, and let him overhear you talking about what you’re reading. Point out interesting pictures in books and magazines, and talk about what they are.

And good for you for promoting literacy. :)

I know this is taking back what I just said (basically). But I loved reading partially because Belle from Beauty and the Beast loved it. Isn’t that sad? But the point is.. make it “cool” to read. Even SpongeBob things using your imagination is awesome :)

The best possible way to encourage reading is to read yourself.

In Freakonomics, the authors analyzed a large set of data about students concerning their reading habits, grades, home life, etc. They found that parents who forced their kids to do things: going to museums, seeing a tutor, etc., did not seem to have a strong effect on their kids. On the other hand, parents that lived the life themselves: constantly reading, studying, attending cultural events, etc., seemed to have a positive effect on the study habits and grades of their children.

If you want your kids to be into reading, show them how to be. This is not a temporary thing, this is a lifestyle change (like exercising and watching what you eat). Make your spouse do it too and sell the TV if you have to. It’s worth the effort.

Read yourself, read to him, limit the time he is allowed to watch TV.

And don’t fret it if he does not learn to read. If he will learn to love books, that’s quite enough for now.

They’ve all got it covered above. To boil it down to a Michael Pollanesque dictum:

Read books. Not too much tv. Mostly aloud..

When your child is able to read, let him/her read what they want to. Let them choose, they may not like the kind of books that you loved as a child, try not to be disappointed about that.
My oldest son wasn’t interested in reading until he found comic books. I cringed at this.
But he loved them, he soon moved on to great books. He is still an avid reader.

There’s no good reason for your son to be able to read before he starts school. He’ll learn in school. If he’s interested and wants to learn, then by all means go for it. If he shows an interest in writing letters, asks how words are spelled, starts playing around with rhyming sounds, and asks you to tell him what signs say as you’re driving in the car, take advantage of that interest and answer his questions.

Read fun, silly books to him. Read him books about things he’s interested in, whether that means you’re reading about dinosaurs or Power Rangers. When you’re reading to him, ask what he thinks will happen next in the story. Spend some time drawing and coloring with him, and ask him to tell you stories about his drawings. My four year old is currently obsessed with making his own books. He’ll do a bunch of different drawings, staple the pages together, and dictate a story for me to write on the pages. Besides being great for his creativity, it’s highly entertaining for me to see what he comes up with! Read these home-made books to him.

When your son starts school, if he can say the ABC’s, recognize most of the letters and numbers, and count to at least ten, he’s ready to learn to read. My kids have always had to keep a “reading log” for school, which was easy because we spend time reading each day anyway. Get into the habit now, make it fun by letting your son pick the books, and turn the TV off!

Even if your son won’t sit with you while you read to him, read out loud anyway. Let him color or play with toys while you read, and eventually he’ll come over to look at the pictures or see what’s going on in the book. Make up stories (or tell him stories you already know) while you’re in the car, giving him a bath, or eating breakfast together. If he’s the starring character in the story, he’ll love it all the more!

Have fun, talk to him a lot, take him places and then find books based on what he liked at those places. If you go to a museum and he likes the dinosaur bones best, go to the library and read dinosaur books. If you go to a park to play and he sees some flowers, bugs, or animals he likes, find books about those things. Besides helping him learn to love books and reading, you’ll be giving him the gift of your time and attention, something the television can never do.

If you want my ADVICE, I would ADVISE you to find fun books that will interest him. Good reading habits will also improve his spelling and his understanding of tenses. When he reads something, reward him with something from the frizzer.

I wasn’t allowed to watch TV until I was 10 years old. Actually I could watch saturday morning cartoons and one half hour show of my choosing a night. Sometimes one half hour show, in addition, of my mother’s choosing. It left me little to do besides use my imagination and read. I suggest that you do something similar for your child especially since TV is what is getting in the way. I was reading well by 5 years old and helped my sister learn before she entered kindergarten.

Flash cards and reading aloud can help him develop his reading skills. I LOVED flash card games, i didn’t know I was learning, i just thought I was having fun.

Also library trips are so fun for small children! Let him choose without any help (unless he asks for it), that is half the fun.

I agree with @filmfann and @wilma

Find the genres that interest him. What kind of TV does he watch? Does he for for the funny cartoons (like spongebob), or does he perfer action/superhero shows (like power rangers, or whatever has replaced them by now)? I know when I was little, it was the Fantasy genre the hooked me. My parents started reading the Redwall series ( by Brian Jacques) to us before bed, and I loved them so much that I soon started reading them myself. It’s like @MissAusten said: children will seek out the knowledge that interests them, so make it interesting.

I read to my daughter and told her stories. She grew up in a house full of books and I was always reading. So once, when she was about six, her father is to come into the dining room exclaiming that our daughter was ”... reading! instead of getting ready for school!!!” – I felt so gratified.