"Reading don't fix no Chevys" : literacy in the lives of young men

Title
"Reading don't fix no Chevys" : literacy in the lives of young men

Personal Author EPSB
Michael W. Smith

Summary
Draws from interviews with forty-nine male middle and high school students to explain what motivates adolescent boys and young men to read, presenting suggestions for improving literacy instruction.

Other Title
Literacy in the lives of young men

Year Published
2002

Physical Description
xxiii, 224 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note (Local)
Best of the Best 2002
 
[w] 19--Feb/04.

Subject
Teenage boys -- Education
 
Literacy -- Education
 
Teenage boys -- Attitudes.
 
Language arts (Secondary)
 
Young men -- Education.
 
Young men -- Attitudes.
 
Teenage boys -- Education -- United States.
 
Teenage boys -- United States -- Attitudes.
 
Language arts (Secondary) -- United States.

Added Author
Wilhelm, Jeffrey D., 1959-
 
Wilhelm, Jeffrey D.,

Summary
Draws from interviews with forty-nine male middle and high school students to explain what motivates adolescent boys and young men to read, presenting suggestions for improving literacy instruction.

ISBN
9780867095098

Publisher
Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2002.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
BritanniaTR 371.82 SMITeacher resource30551000089157Teacher Materials