I agree with CNN re just leaving it alone for now - since you know he's capable of reading at grade level or above. Our math/sciency ds also didn't enjoy reading just for reading's sake when he was in early elementary. He *could* read (way ahead of grade level) and he did read - but it was primarily short bits and pieces randomly picked out of way-upper-level science books. His preferred way of obtaining knowledge was talking and watching videos. He absolutely refused to read fiction. OTOH, we read to him daily and he listened (while he was also making clay models or drawing or looking out the window... but he could answer any questions we asked him so we knew he was listening. When we read to him, we read fiction (classics mostly).
Eventually, half-way through 4th grade, he discovered his love of reading fiction - and it didn't come from us forcing it, from us encouraging it, or from us reading to him. What happened was his class had silent reading time every day, and his best friend loved to read fiction. When his best friend decided to read the first Olympians book (sorry can't remember the full name of the series at the moment!)... ds decided to also read the book at the same time... not because he had any interest in the book... but because he wanted to see if he could read the book faster than his friend. I'm not sure how long it took his friend, but ds was hooked on that book before he finished the first chapter, read the first volume in one day, and devoured the series so quickly you wouldn't believe that just the week before he'd flat out refused to read all fiction. He went on to enjoy a lot of the other series that are aimed at about the same age level (Warriors is one of his all-time favorites)... and then he ran out of books that he was interested in, but he'd gotten far enough into it to realize he really loved having a good book to read, so he was more willing to try books we suggested.
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