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Listening to the Voices of Boys

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This book addresses the challenge of motivating students, especially boys, to read. It emphasizes that no single approach works for all boys and provides strategies for teachers to identify and mee...
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  • 16 February 2016
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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.

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Price: $95.00
Pages: 142
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Information Age Publishing
Series: Literacy, Language and Learning
Publication Date: 16 February 2016
ISBN: 9781681234595
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: EDUCATION / Counseling / Academic Development, Educational strategies and policy, Teaching skills and techniques
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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.