INDEPTH: GENDER GAP
What we're beginning to see now is what we saw with the girls: The birth of all kinds of different strategies to get boys back to books. Educator and English professor David Booth of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at U of T suggests: "Don't be a snob about literature."
(Read the entire article from the CBC below)
Access the Canadian Adolescent Boys and Literacy Home Page below:
Me Read? No Way! A practical guide to improving boys' literacy skills from the Ministry of Education:
Can the use of technology, specifically the Internet, get boys interested in literacy?
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Check out the Hockey Hall of Fame Writing Challenge for all students (male and female).
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