Originally Posted by momoftwins
I have heard this from my 6 year old sons, who are also in first grade. I think they just do not enjoy sitting and reading one story for very long, and they don't want to read part of it and come back to it later. They just really aren't ready to enjoy chapter books, even though they would be able to read and comprehend them. They do enjoy reading non-fiction books, and longer picture books or longer "readers" and will read them instead.

Yes, I am definitely seeing that. He will read very advanced science books but they have to have diagrams and pictures! But even if I give him a chapter book that has pictures, if there is any indication at all that it's a "chapter book" he turns up his nose. I have no idea how the teacher last year got him to read The Mouse and the Motorcycle without complaining.