Reading

Take it away from him or her and offer a reward for their good habit of reading. Give the child a positive reinforcement. When the child starts reading regularly the child gets the tablet back for limited amounts of time per day.

Kids imitate parents quite unconsciously. If he sees you with a book on a regular basis, he'll start thinking there's something worth looking into.

Remove or lock the games on the tablet and download some books for him to read on the tablet.

For every two books he reads, unlock a game. You'll have to converse with him about the books to confirm he's reading them.

Boys tend to prefer non fiction. Find out what interests him. These books are very popular over here.

Try taking your child on a weekly trip to the public library. Talk to him beforehand about the sort of stories or topics he likes to read about and help him find some that can be finished within a week. Better to take out too few than too many at first, so there is something to look forward to getting on the next trip. And let your child see you taking out a book for yourself that you'll also read during the week.

Make going to the library weekly a special sort of outing--stop for ice cream, or pizza, or lunch afterward. If you don't already have them, make a big deal about the two of you getting library cards.

Once reading becomes more of a habit, you can also allow the child to pick out a movie at the library to watch during the week as well, since that will also help to cut down on the time spent playing games on the tablet.

Well considerably he is reading. Just not the text on paper issue you are so used to. See, I do most of my reading here on this IPad all day long. But I have my collection of print, dating back to the mid 1800s. Yeah I'm pretty boring...

And by the way, why not tell him he needs to stick his nose in a book one hour for every two he spends on the tab? That may work.
Hope this helped

rewarding technique is a good start. try to reward them every book they finished. then, make a play, according to the book they read.

Hi NaomiJShaw,
You should try to develop interest in reading by offering some interesting books to your kid like short stories in which some characters are shown, because characters attract kids. Once your kid develop interest in reading it will be good.

You should give him an interest of reading a book, I guess.

You should take away the tablet from him and delete all the games. Spend some time with him and tell him the non fiction stories. When he shows some interest in your stories then handover some books to him.

Read books to your child. Don't give importance to your phone or tab in front of the kid. Offer rewards as someone said