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From the ORC Collection
More Resources on Boys and Reading
Here are some resources from the ORC collection related to this month's theme, Boys
and Reading. We have divided the resources into two groups. The first is a general
list, and the second focuses on struggling readers.
For teaching boys in general
| Even Hockey Players Read [excerpt]: Part A, "Understanding the Literacy Lives of Boys" |   | ORC# 3708 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.stenhouse.com/pdfs/8147pa.pdf | | RESOURCE TYPE: Professional Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 6 - 10 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: This excerpt is the first chapter in David Booth's Even Hockey Players Read. This chapter focuses on uncovering many of the assumptions and stereotypes parents and educators have about boys and how they handle the world of print text.... | | CAREER FIELDS: General Career Skills | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, Standards First | | MORE... |
| "Reading Don't Fix No Chevys": Literacy in the Lives of Young Men [excerpt]: Chapter 1, "What's Going Down" | | ORC# 4030 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.heinemann.com/onlineresources/0509/chapter1.pdf | | RESOURCE TYPE: Professional Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 8 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: This excerpt from "Reading Don't Fix No Chevys" provides an overview that looks at the current concerns around literacy and boys. Using several key research studies to create what they perceive to be a list of the critical issues with boys and literacy, the authors respond in this chapter to the concerns they cite: (1) boys underperforming in literacy, (2) concerns for boys' psychological health, (3) biological determinism, (4) boys and violence, (5) battle lines over boys and learning, (6) gender and literacy, (7) literacy and masculinity, and (3) critical theory that incorporates social constructivism.... | | CAREER FIELDS: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, Transportation Systems, General Career Skills | | PROJECTS: Standards First | | MORE... |
| Boys May Be Boys, But Do They Have to Read and Write That Way? | | ORC# 3671 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.readingonline.org/newliteracies/lit_index.asp?HREF=/n... | | RESOURCE TYPE: Professional Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 5 - 10 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: Citing research from a number of recent books and studies that have explored how boys often want to read and write (Smith and Wilhelm's (2002) "Reading Don't Fix No Chevys": Literacy in the Lives of Young Men; Maynard's (2002) Boys and Literacy: Exploring the Issues; Booth's (2002) Even Hockey Players Read; and Newkirk's (2002) Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture), this professional resource asks thoughtful questions about how boys, responding to the dominant culture, engage in literacy practices in and out of the classroom. The author shares samples of his own adolescent boys' writing, and shows how research demonstrates that boys who seem uninterested in literacy in the classroom may be enthusiastic readers and writers in different contexts.... | | CAREER FIELDS: General Career Skills | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, OhioWINS, Standards First | | MORE... |
| "Reading Don't Fix No Chevys": Literacy in the Lives of Young Men [excerpt]: Chapter 2, "Going with the Flow: What Boys Like to Do and Why They Like to Do It" | | ORC# 5540 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://books.heinemann.com/shared/onlineresources/0509/chapter2.... | | RESOURCE TYPE: Professional Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 6 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: This excerpt examines possible constructs to explore why adolescent boys are successful outside of school, yet struggle with school and school-assigned reading. The authors apply the principles of "flow," (joy, creativity, and the process of total involvement with life) to four detailed case studies of high school boys, and their results offer insight into strategies for teaching reading to adolescent males.... | | CAREER FIELDS: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, Transportation Systems, General Career Skills | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, Standards First | | MORE... |
| Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture [excerpt]: Chapter 8, "A Big Enough Room" | | ORC# 5621 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://books.heinemann.com/shared/onlineresources/E00445/chapter... | | RESOURCE TYPE: Professional Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 3 - 8 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: This chapter is an excerpt from Thomas Newkirk's Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture. Titled "A Big Enough Room," chapter 8 is the author's final look at boys and how they fare in school-based literacy programs.... | | CAREER FIELDS: Arts & Communication, Education & Training, General Career Skills | | PROJECTS: OhioWINS, Standards First | | MORE... |
| Going with the Flow: How to Engage Boys (and Girls) in Their Literacy Learning [excerpt]: Chapter 3, "Teaching So It Matters: Where Should We Be Going and How Can We Get There?" | | ORC# 5765 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://books.heinemann.com/shared/onlineresources/E00643/chapter... | | RESOURCE TYPE: Professional Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 6 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: Authors Michael Smith and Jeffrey Wilhelm continue in this third chapter excerpt an earlier discussion of literacy, boys, and flow in reading. Here, Smith and Wilhelm address specifically how to achieve the characteristics of flow experience by organizing curriculum conceptually around inquiry questions.... | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, OhioWINS | | MORE... |
| Me Read? No Way!: A Practical Guide to Improving Boys' Literacy Skills | | ORC# 6617 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/document/brochure/meread/meread.pdf | | RESOURCE TYPE: Professional Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 6 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: Prepared by the Ontario Ministry of Education, this guide focuses on the literacy development of boys and provides practical and effective strategies for classroom use. The guide features a rich source of practices and strategies that have been used successfully in literacy programs around the world.... | | PROJECTS: AdLIT | | MORE... |
| Guys Read | | ORC# 6007 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://guysread.com/ | | RESOURCE TYPE: Professional Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 1 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: This highly informative site by Jon Scieszka is packaged in a visually appealing, creative way, and is packed with relevant book lists for "guys" (young boys, middle years, and adult males). In its simplicity lies a wealth of opportunity for guys of all ages to peruse book lists targeted by age group.... | | CAREER FIELDS: General Career Skills | | PROJECTS: Standards First | | MORE... |
Especially for teaching boys who struggle
| Reversing Reading Failure In Young Adults | | ORC# 3648 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.gse.harvard.edu/ncsall/fob/1997/curtis.htm | | RESOURCE TYPE: Professional Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 6 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: This professional resource details the reading research and teaching occurring in Boys Town, home of a reading center that is part of the National Resource and Training Center. A laboratory for older adolescents with reading problems, the goals of the Reading Center are to develop research-based programs that prove effective in Boys Town's schools and to disseminate them to other schools around the country.... | | PROJECTS: AdLIT | | MORE... |
| Reading Conversations [excerpt]: Chapter 7, "Changing Attitudes, Changing Readers: Two Seventh Graders Move from RMA to CRMA" | | ORC# 4590 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.heinemann.com/shared/onlineresources/E00720/chapter7.... | | RESOURCE TYPE: Professional Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 4 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: In this chapter excerpt, retrospective miscue analysis (RMA) and collaborative retrospective miscue analysis (CRMA) were used with two seventh-grade boys labeled learning disabled. RMA and CRMA enabled the boys to use exploratory talk as a tool for learning and gave them time to talk about their reading so they would learn and practice new reading strategies.... | | PROJECTS: AdLIT | | MORE... |
| Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males: Closing the Achievement Gap [excerpt]: Chapter 1, "Literacy Development in Black Adolescent Males" | | ORC# 5619 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.stenhouse.com/pdfs/0393ch01.pdf | | RESOURCE TYPE: Professional Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Kindergarten - Grade 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: In this chapter excerpt, author Alfred W. Tatum looks at the ways in which "poverty has a way of souring the childhood of black males" and "reading has a way of sweetening it." Using research and findings to support his text, Tatum writes with the insight and from the perspective of a black man concerned with the development of literacy in black adolescent males.... | | CAREER FIELDS: Education & Training | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, Standards First | | MORE... |
| I Read It, but I Don't Get It [excerpt]: Chapter 1, "Fake Reading" | | ORC# 1327 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.stenhouse.com/pdfs/0089ch01.pdf | | RESOURCE TYPE: Professional Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 6 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: This chapter from I Read It, but I Don't Get It offers practical ideas for engaging and motivating struggling readers. Written by Cris Tovani, an accomplished teacher and staff developer, the text documents the challenges of working with students who have mastered the art of "fake reading" and who struggle with the different demands of high school level textbooks and novels.... | | CAREER FIELDS: General Career Skills | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, Standards First | | MORE... |
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