Listening to the Voices of Boys: Exploring the Motivation of Primary Boys to Engage in Reading

by Krista Griffin

Overview

Motivation to engage in reading is a consistent problem for students in general and boys in particular. To solve this problem, we often seek answers from everyone but those we are hoping to motivate. We read the latest article on motivation and think we have finally come up with the recipe that will motivate all of the boys in our class. When it doesn’t work for everyone, we go back to the drawing board and try something else until we finally understand that all boys are motivated by different things.

That is the basis of this book: nothing will work for ALL boys, but there are ways to equip teachers to find out how the boys in their classes are motivated. It provides them with a direction to go once they’ve established the needs of their students and offers suggestions for how to meet individual motivational needs. Each chapter addresses a different motivational need, providing background information and practical classroom applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781681234588
Publisher:	Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Publication date:	02/16/2016
Series:	Literacy, Language and Learning
Pages:	142
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.30(d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction.
Chapter 2. The Importance of Asking.
Chapter 3. You've Asked Them: Now What?
Chapter 4. Helping Boys See Reading as a Masculine Activity.
Chapter 5. Helping Boys Understand the Purpose of Reading.
Chapter 6. Helping Boys to Develop Self Efficacy with Reading.
Chapter 7. What Counts as Reading?
Chapter 8. Responding to Reading.
Chapter 9. Creating and Maintaining an Optimal Classroom Environment That Helps All Learners Perform Their Best.
Chapter 10. Helping Boys Understand How to Select Texts.
Chapter 11. Motivating Emergent Bilinguals.
Chapter 12. Conclusion.