Advancing Adolescent Literacy Instruction Together
March 2006
Boys and Reading

“In large part, teachers are struggling because they do not understand the African American male or historical orientations that informed the reading practices of the African American male in the United States."
   —Alfred W. Tatum





October 2004

When Adolescents Can't and Won't Read

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CONTENTS
Feature
Motivating African American Teenage Boys to Read Text
by Alfred W. Tatum
 
Classroom Vignettes
Our Father-Son Book Club
by Scott Morrison and Keith Wayne
 
Getting Boys to Read: Teachers Whose Classrooms Teach Us How to Do It
by June Berkley
 
Boys’ Literate Lives: A Nonfiction Collaboration
by Karen Whitney
 
Student Voices
A Conversation with Children’s Bookstore Owner Sally Oddi
 
Boys Recommend Books to Other Boys
 
A Look at the OGT
Raising the Reading Achievement of Boys
by Nicole Luthy
 
For Your Bookshelf
Books by Brozo, Pirie, Tatum, and Smith and Wilhelm
by Sheila Cantlebary
 
From the ORC Collection
More Resources on Boys and Reading
 

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