Getting A Boy to Read

Dominic has taken a long time to show any interest in reading. He's more interested in activity-based play. However Kindergarten is coming up soon and I would like him to be ready to learn. I've been working with him on this, un-beknownst to him. We play "Stump Dominic" as he settles into bed every night. It goes like this: I write a word on a Glo-Board and see if he can sound it out and read it. Usually he needs some help but it always ends like this - "Oh, you're too smart! I can't stump you this time!"

Now we are working on reading sentences. He didn't want to read sentences and would just clam up. So to make it fun I went along with his pleas of "trick or treat, smell my feet". Fine, I'll smell your feet after you've read a whole sentence. And then wasn't he motivated!! He read as many sentences as I could write just to see me smell his stinky little feet and fall over from the smell amidst a cacophony of giggles.

Let it never be said that a mother won't go to any lengths for her children.
I'm just hoping his Kindergarten teacher won't have to do the same...