Engaging Boys in Active Literacy
Evidence and Practice

Provides strong research analysis alongside effective instructional approaches to increasing boys' literacy skills and motivation.

William G. Brozo (Author)

9781108724272, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 May 2019

266 pages, 2 b/w illus. 6 tables
22.8 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.4 kg

'Engaging Boys in Active Literacy adds research-based knowledge and practice-based strategies to the toolkit for educators and researchers in the search for more effective ways of supporting boys to find meaning in reading - both in the act of reading and in the content of the reading.' So Yeon Shin, Harvard Educational Review

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.

Subject Areas: Educational psychology [JNC], Philosophy & theory of education [JNA], Education [JN]