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To Be a Boy, To Be a Reader —
Abstract of
Chapter 6
Alternative Texts and Practices
to Engage Male Readers
William G. Brozo
Chapter 6 is devoted to alternative texts and practices that are motivating boys to read and learn. Ensuring boys develop important academic literacy abilities, we need to take advantage of their everyday literate practices. By eliminating barriers between boys' competencies with outside-of-school texts and classroom practices it is possible to increase their engagement in learning and expand their reading skill. We know that male youth use literacies when they prepare for and strategize winning solutions to computer and video games; when they read comic books and graphic novels; when they gather new ideas and information about their hobbies, such as skateboarding, collecting, and sports; and when they listen to, read, and even write song lyrics. Effective teaching practices with these and other alternative texts, including digital media, are explored in this chapter.
Brozo, W.G. (2010).
Alternative Texts and Practices
to Engage Male Readers.
In To Be a Boy, To Be a Reader (pp. 137-159). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
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