Keywords
reluctant male readers, reading engagement, literacy practices
Abstract
A few months ago, a group of middle and high school media specialists invited me to help them consider approaches for engaging reluctant male readers. I thought long and hard about my own experiences, both as a reluctant male reader and as a teacher of reluctant readers. To begin to respond to such a query, I suggested, meant that we must first ponder several equally important questions:
- What are students doing instead of reading?
- In what literary practices are they already engaged outside of school?
- How can educators connect current extracurricular interests with ongoing curricular activities?
- How can books further develop this connection?
- How can reading push students toward new ideas, understandings, and ways of being in the world?
Original Publication Citation
“Ball Don’t Lie: Connecting Adolescents, Sports, and Literature,” The ALAN Review 41.1 (Fall 2013): 76-80 (co-authored with Alan Brown).
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Brown, Alan and Crowe, Chris, "Ball Don’t Lie: Connecting Adolescents, Sports, and Literature" (2013). Faculty Publications. 9590.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/9590
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
The ALAN Review
Language
English
College
Humanities
Department
English
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