Saturday, July 2, 2011
listening to others
This summer has been filled with a lot of time at the ball fields ( not local ). My son is on a travel team with boys from several different backgrounds ( educational and family). WOW when you take time to listen to the conversations you soon realize our county is not the only county with a few problems... over half the boys hate to read and don't make any bones about how they don't care to read. The boys who are the better students and spend time with their education, have a family member who is in education or is from a family where one or both of the parents have a college education. Children are going to imitate what the see- good or bad.
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A book has been published on boys and reading. I may have a copy. If I can locate it, I will bring it to you. Yet, I wonder if they actually do engage in lots of reading: emails, blogs, facebook, messaging, sports scores, etc. Is it possible they associate reading with AR tests or mandatory novels?
ReplyDeleteI found the book! It is called "To Be A Boy, to Be a Reader: Engaging teen and preteen boys in active literacy." William G. Brozo is the author. I'll bring it on the 21st.
ReplyDeleteI commented on Leigh Ann's site that it would be nice if the three of us could offer some "safe haven" at school for coffee, newspapers, magazines, etc. Maybe if we could get a list of poor readers (under 8th grade reading), we could start something this fall before or after school?
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