Getting boys to read is one of biggest challenges facing elementary teachers and literacy teachers. Guys Read is a website designed to promote reading among boys in all grades. Guys Read has book lists, short stories, and free classroom visuals to promote reading among boys. The website has a graphic design that appeals to male students.
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Guys Read provides free classroom visuals for teachers. The website provides recommendations that students can read to help them find a book that will meet their interests. The Guys Read Anthology is a nice collection of stories that will appeal to a male audience.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Guys Read - Getting Boys to Read
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3 comments:
Thanks - always looking for resources like this.
Have you read, "Reading Don't Fix No Chevys"?
It's a good book on the same topic. It also has a companion text called "Going with the Flow" (I think...) with curriculum ideas.
**off to explore Guys Read**
Hi Tracy,
"Reading Don't Fix No Chevys" is a good resource. I wish I had known about it when I was thrust into teaching a 9th grade literature class as long-term substitute five or six years ago.
Richard
It's so important to draw attention to reading, and attract reluctant readers to it, especially boys.
I grew up as a reluctant reader, in spite of the fact that my father published over 70 books. Now I write action-adventures & mysteries, especially for tween boys, that avid boy readers and girls enjoy just as much.
My blog, Books for Boys http://booksandboys.blogspot.com is dedicated to drawing attention to the importance of reading. And my new book, Lost Island Smugglers - first in the Sam Cooper Adventure Series - is coming out in August. .
Max Elliot Anderson
PS. My first 7 books are going to be republished by Comfort Publishing later in 2010
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