To Be a Boy, to Be a Reader: Engaging Teen and Preteen Boys in Active Literacy
Registered by booklady331 of Cape Coral, Florida USA on 5/13/2006
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When it comes to reading, teen and preteen boys are your toughest students. Now, solutions are at hand in this one-of-a-kind book that offers ideas for using literature with positive male archetypes to motivate boys to read and capture their unique imaginations. Author Brozo defines several such archetypes and shares instructional vignettes in which teachers across the curriculum develop innovative strategies and activities using young adult books with these archetypes. He also shows you how to work with adults in the community to positively influence boys' literacy behavior and create conditions that encourage them to read. A foreword by Jon Scieszka explains why the need to help boys is so urgent. An appendix offers a booklist of 300 titles to help you identify appropriate archetypal literature.
Although this book is geared specifically toward helping boys, the author points out that the strategies presented may also benefit girls by exposing them to positive male images that are unlike the stereotypes of masculinity they are exposed to every day.
To Be a Boy, To Be a Reader will help you stop the cycle of adolescent boys' struggles with reading and engender a love of reading that last a lifetime.
About the Author
William G. Brozo is Professor of Language and Literacy at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
Although this book is geared specifically toward helping boys, the author points out that the strategies presented may also benefit girls by exposing them to positive male images that are unlike the stereotypes of masculinity they are exposed to every day.
To Be a Boy, To Be a Reader will help you stop the cycle of adolescent boys' struggles with reading and engender a love of reading that last a lifetime.
About the Author
William G. Brozo is Professor of Language and Literacy at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
Reinforces what I already believed about boys and books. I loved a couple of things about the book. One, that he believes that boys need POSITIVE male archetypes. Second, the way he divides the types of archetypes: pilgrim, patriach, warrior, magician, king, wildman, healer, prophet, trickster, and lover. He gives numberous suggestions for books under each of these types.
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