![]() Dad loved some long tome as a boy and wants junior to come to an equal apprectation of it.īut reading experts all agree that boys need to be allowed to pick the books that really interest them. And in the name of gender-neutrality, teachers are foisting books on boys that they simply do not like.īut parents are to blame too, often trying to make their sons read “important books” to build their character. Boys also lack male reading mentors-their librarians and teachers are often female, and it’s mom that reads to them. ![]() Boys may see reading as a passive and thus sissy activity. What’s the problem? Some of it may be biological (boys’ language skills develop slower that girls). ![]() Non-reading boys do poorer academically and end up as non-reading men (women read almost twice as many books as men). Boys also take longer to learn to read than girls, are less likely to actually read and to value reading, and are more likely to label themselves as “non-readers” (up to 50% of high school age boys consider themselves as such). For several decades now, boys have scored lower on reading assessment tests than girls. Unfortunately, not all boys have that kind of enthusiasm for reading. And as soon I got them, I was lying under the covers with my nose buried in a book. As a boy, one of my favorite times in school was when we’d get a new Scholastic News book “catalog.” I would pour over the pages picking out which books I wanted and filling out the order sheet.
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