For a kid who harbors a dislike for the act of reading, if you make it easier for him, then it's no longer such an odious chore. Overhead in Bed is remedial: it’s an overhaul.
Just as compelling as the hardwired human need for 'story' in the Joseph Campbell sense are things like menus, daily fantasy sports picks and erotica. Everybody has a strong motivation to read something, so why not transmute the impetus of things we like to read into things we need to read, an inarguable list of things like: finding the correct exit at 75mph, IKEA assembly instructions, operating procedures for the video drone, or, dare we say it, school work? The physical irritation of having to read daunting and dislikable textbooks - stiff in a chair at a desk - creates a double-stress when there should be none. If the unpleasant idea of having to read required material the old fashioned way is just enough to crumple the task of home-work and toss it into a consequential bin of procrastination, what would happen to this equation if the [mathematical] value of physical discomfort were removed?
Remove a to solve for c:
Work [a] + Desire [b] = Success [c].
“The American educational system is a trillion-dollar monstrosity.” ~ Alex Newman, author of Indoctrinating Our Children to Death