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

Title:

Personal Author EPSB:

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.

Grade Interest level:

Professional

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.

Curriculum Objective:

Literacy Program. local

Added Author:

Wilhelm, Jeffrey D., 1959-

Wilhelm, Jeffrey D.,

ISBN:

9780867095098

Publisher:

Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2002.

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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.