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Resources Here are several books and articles pertaining to literacy and learning regarding boys and girls which should be of interest to all who want to inspire youths to enjoy the written or oral word. Booth, David. (2002). “Even hockey players read: Boys, literacy and learning.” Markham, Ontario: Pembroke. This book examines many issues that pertain to the “literacy lives” of boys. In particular it examines how boys perceive themselves as readers, and how parents, teachers and peers influence their literacy development. ************ Blair, H. and Sanford, K (2004). “Morphing Literacy: Boys Reshaping Their Literacy Practices. Language Arts” 81(3) This journal article explores what literacy means to adolescent boys. It shows how boys are changing the shape of literacy and how this implication will impact the future of teaching a language arts program. ************* Millard, Elaine. (1997). “Differently literate: Boys and Girls and the schooling of literacy.” London: Routeledge and Farmer. (Amazon) This book focuses on researching the different experiences that boys and girls have with respect to the reading and writing curriculum. It provides insight into children's habits of literacy engagement at home and school. *************
Ontario Ministry of
Education. (2004).
“Me Read? No Way!” (ISBN 0-7794 – 7014 –
1) This ministry document is designed as part of an initiative to support student success in literacy. In particular it focuses on boys and how to develop strategies to engage and enhance their success with literacy. ************* Peterson, Shelley. (2004) “Supporting Boys’ and Girls’ Literacy Learning.” Orbit, 34(1), 33-35. This journal article makes an attempt to probe into some of the reasons as to why a gender gap exists in literacy scores between boys and girls in elementary school. Strategies for increasing the engagement of boys with literacy are explored. ***************** Smith, Michael W. and Wilhelm, Jeffrey. (2002) “Reading don’t fix no Chevys: Literacy in the lives of young men.” Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. This book outlines some of the problems that boys experience with literacy, namely reading and writing. The authors attempt to discuss why boys embrace or reject certain ways of being literate and how they can become motivated to read by using texts with certain qualities. This link is for information about book on ERIC ******************* Sullivan, Michael. (2003). Connecting Boys with books. Chicago, Illnois: ALA Editions. This article offers some ideas and perspectives on why boys aren't as involved in reading as girls, and what the community can do to change this. The particular focus is on what the library and librarian can do to encourage boys to actively read. *********************** Taylor, Deborah. and Lorimer Maureen (2002/2003). Helping boys succeed, Educational Leadership. (60) 4, 68-70. This article describes several academic and behavioural issues involving males in schools, such as males scoring lower in language arts and on standardized tests as compared to females and how males dominate school discipline statistics. It goes on to suggest several strategies to address these issues. Some include 1) offering more technology, using multiple literacy approaches, encouraging mentoring relationships, and incorporating more action-oriented activities.
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