Engaging Boys in Active Literacy: Evidence and Practice
Cambridge University Press, 5/23/2019
EAN 9781108724272, ISBN10: 1108724272
Paperback, 266 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
Language: English
Too many boys do not like to read, are choosing not to read, and are suffering academically as a result. All concerned adults need to redouble their efforts to ensure that boys who bring the greatest challenges to our classrooms and schools receive responsive literacy texts and practices to increase their chances for academic, personal, and occupational success. This book is more than a compendium of techniques, it also provides an analysis of the research literature on central issues and related aspects of literacy and learning for boys. The author identifies issues that impinge on boys' literacy development and explores what the research literature has to say about these issues. The descriptions of how teachers have used engaging texts and practices to help boys overcome low literacy engagement and skill in order to stay on course as readers and writers are highly informative and practical as models of best practice.
Introduction
1. Boys' reading and learning
identifying the issues
2. Boys and literacy
a closer look
3. Boys' masculinities and identities
evidence and practice
4. Socio-economics and boys
evidence and practice
5. Immigrant and new language learner boys
evidence and practice
6. Literacy engagement and boys
evidence and practice
7. Boys and new literacies
evidence and practice
8. Boys and writing
evidence and practice.